“Among them is a 12th-century liturgical compendium called the Mahzor Vitry, the oldest surviving decorated Ashkenazic Hebrew manuscript.”

“Ashkenazic custom is that the woman can perform the internal examination at any time during the Anticipated Flow.”

“But while the Ashkenazic secular community may still be at the center of Israel's high-tech economic explosion, its members are suffering the same sense of self-doubt and decline as the American Wasp.”