She’d never seen a smartphone or heard a radio before she fled. She’s racing to catch up/ By Steve Hendrix in The Washington Post

JERUSALEM — Ruth Borovski, doing a bit of homework, sat in a library and Googled “phosphate” on her smartphone.

That could not have happened 19 months earlier, when Borovski was a 27-year-old living within one of Israel’s cloistered ultra-Orthodox Jewish sects. Then, she had never heard of phosphate. Or of smartphones

She says she had never seen a library. Now it’s hard to get her out of one.

“Every day, I learn something new, every minute even,” she marveled amid the stacks, where knowledge is unfolding for her at a dizzying, sometimes terrifying, pace.

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