“מקודשת”

Director: Anat Zuria
Israel, 2004
Hebrew with English subtitles
Color
Length: 65 Min.
Documentary

After the movie, plan to stay for an interesting discussion about Divorce in Israel, led by Nitzhia Shaked

For Jewish women in Israel, the right to divorce is determined by Jewish religious law. Under that law, a woman can receive a divorce only if her husband consents, and no husband can be compelled to grant a divorce. This situation has left many Jewish women in Israel unable to obtain a divorce and start a new life. This brave film examines three especially shocking examples of why some form of change is necessary.

.Nominated for a Silver Wolf at IDFA, this shocking documentary exposes the Kafkaesque process of divorce for women in Israel where secular law does not exist, and divorce is dealt with according to archaic and fundamentalist orthodox Jewish law. Filmmaker Anat Zuria, maker of the award-winning Purity, gained rare access to the rabbinical courts to follow two women caught in the demoralizing legal labyrinth. Though husbands can live with other women and even withhold child support, wives are forbidden contact with other men. In some cases, these very modern, independent and well-educated women are forced to buy a divorce from their husbands for huge sums. As a result, thousands of Jewish women have lived in limbo indefinitely, both in Israel and in other communities around the world

November 11, 1:00 pm