"I don't need to advertise, " says Tikva Burkis, who runs a similar home business in the town of Lod.

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He also came from the town of Lod 50 years ago.

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Just as poor, uneducated single mothers in Lod can be depended on to blame their troubles on an insensitive government, so groups of ultra-Orthodox extremists in Beit Shemesh, whose own communities decry them, can be trusted to treat nonreligious women poorly.

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