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Culture In this Ephron-esque romcom, Sally meets Harry — then gets divorced two years later
"The Gett," a play by Liba Vaynberg running at Rattlestick Theater, chronicles a Jewish divorce but never quite decides what it wants to say
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Fast Forward Israeli Ride Service Startup Gett Buys U.S. Rival For $200 Million
(REUTERS) — Israeli-founded ride service Gett has bought U.S. rival Juno for $200 million in a deal that further consolidated the ride-hailing industry and that some said short-changed Juno drivers. Gett, an on-demand ride service that is a partner of automaker Volkswagen, said on Wednesday it had bought New York-based startup Juno. The transaction grows…
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Life ‘What Anguish’: Israeli Actress Ronit Elkabetz Dies at 51
Ronit Elkabetz, a leading Israeli actress, director and scriptwriter, died April 19 at age 51 after a battle with cancer. Over the course of her career, Elkabetz won three Ophir awards – the Israeli equivalent of the Oscar – for best actress, for her performances in the films “Sh’Chur,” “Late Marriage” and “The Band’s Visit”,…
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Life Ending An Ancient Jewish ‘Spitting’ Rite In Israel
Halitza shoe in the Bata Shoe Museum/Wikicommons Responding to numerous complaints from women, a religious advocacy group in Israel is urging the Chief Rabbinate to regulate an obscure Jewish “spitting” rite. The rite in question, performed in the Orthodox community, is known as “Halitza” and is required of women who have been widowed with no…
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Life International Agunah Day Solves Nothing
Viviane (Ronit Elkabetz), Carmel (Menashe Noy) and Elisha (Simon Abkarian) in GETT. Courtesy of Music Box Films Purim is this week. I hope to join a women’s reading of the Megillah (Scroll of Esther). I like hearing women’s voices in the synagogue, center-stage. I admire Queen Vashti’s nerve, even though she does get her head chopped…
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The Schmooze A Chat With the Writers/Directors of ‘Gett’
I don’t recall ever feeling as angry as I was after seeing “The Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,” the blistering gut-wrenching must-see film by writer/directors Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz. Warmly ensconced at The Regency Hotel during one of New York’s recent snow-ins, the Elkabetz siblings alternated in answering my questions about the film’s heroine…
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Culture ‘Gett’ Depicts an Orthodox Universe That Is Beyond Kafkasque
“Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem” is a plea on behalf of agunot, women whose husbands refuse to grant them a religious divorce. It is an indictment of the Israeli justice system, which doesn’t provide for civil marriage or its dissolution, and of the rabbinical courts that do hold such powers. Most of all, the…
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