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‘Gett’ to represent Israel at Oscars

(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The movie “Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem,” about an Israeli woman whose intransigent husband refuses to grant her a certificate of divorce (in Hebrew, a “gett”), will represent Israel at the 2015 Academy Awards. The movie won Best Picture at last week’s Ophir Awards ceremony, the Israeli version of the Academy Awards, making it the Israeli entry for the U.S. competition. The plot of the film focuses on the woman’s efforts to have the rabbinical court end her marriage, but with the husband’s whereabouts unknown, the case goes into limbo. Under Israeli law, only rabbinical courts can divorce two Jews.

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