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This Golden Globe nominee as Best Foreign Film is an uncompromising, heart-rending courtroom drama of a woman’s three-year struggle to obtain a divorce from her estranged husband. Tragically, she finds herself effectively put on trial by her country’s religious marriage laws. The movie is in Hebrew, French and Arabic with English subtitles. The evening will include a “talk back” with Rabbi Howard Jachter.
Jachter is an internationally recognized mesader Gittin (Gett administrator) under the auspices of the Beth Din (Rabbinical Court) of Elizabeth. Additionally, Jachter serves as chairmanman of the Agunah Prevention and Resolution Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America. Jachter is the Rabbi at Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck.
This film also is the winner of the Israeli Film Academy Ophir Award for Best Picture and propelled by the craft of Ronit Elkabetz, one of Israeli cinema’s most acclaimed actresses.
To register for the movie, click here. The cost per person is $12. Refreshments will be served. Due to limited seating, only prepaid reservations will be accepted through Feb. 19. You can either make online reservations or contact the synagogue office at office@sephardicteaneck.org or at 201-833-0800.
The Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck was founded in 1994 to provide a warm, comfortable and welcoming place of worship for Sephardim of all nationalities and to promote the spiritual and moral values of Tefilla, Halacha and customs of Sephardic culture. Congregants are delighted to welcome new members and guests into the community.
Shaarei Orah is at 1425 Essex Street in Teaneck.
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