"Sentenced to Marriage" (entitled "Mekudeshet" - or "Holy" - in Hebrew) is a shocking documentary that 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 three women caught in the 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."
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