Religious female rockers cater to women-only audiences in Israel...

On a fog-filled stage, as the six women of the Ashira band rocked before their die-hard fans, a man entered the auditorium - and was promptly asked to leave.

The band has been playing together for three years and the crowds have grown steadily in numbers. But the band has held fast to one golden rule: No men are allowed.

The band's members are all Orthodox Jewish women and, guided by a rabbinical injunction that says it is immodest for a man to listen to a woman's voice in song, they perform only before other women. More...

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