It doesn't come up often, but you're correct - short of physical abuse or abandonment, only the husband has the power to divorce in Judaism.  In Israel, it is extremely rare for the woman to be granted a divorce when the husband doesn't agree.  This is the sort of lovingkindness and respect for women is what you get in a theocracy.

I'm also not a big fan of religious-themed films, but I quite like 'Fiddler On The Roof'.

Boru

So the fucking jewish pigs think it is ok to enslave women women in bad marriages and by withholding divorce and alimony/child support. They also think their relationship to the imaginary sky daddy allows them to decide who gets married too. Forget gay marriage, you're fucked if your parents weren't married!
Theocracies are such shit.

It is a theocracy problem. You tend to end up the same nasty places with regard to women in Muslim, Christian, Hindu, or Mormon run theocracies. I just find Israel particularly offensive because they are our (U.S.A.) sworn allies and the U.S. press will not hear that they ever do wrong.

(July 27, 2015 at 9:10 am)Jenny A Wrote: It is a theocracy problem.  You tend to end up the same nasty places with regard to women in Muslim, Christian, Hindu, or Mormon run theocracies.  I just find Israel particularly offensive because they are our (U.S.A.) sworn allies and the U.S. press will not hear that they ever do wrong.

Yes, but funnily enough it's Ottoman legislation that never got changed.

(July 26, 2015 at 7:55 pm)Brakeman Wrote: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3062880/

Has anyone here seen this movie? I haven't seen it because I can't stand to watch anything religious related on a weak stomach, but I was surprised that the premise seems to be that there isn't any "no-fault" divorce in israel.

Sounds pretty 'effn disgusting..

She should have simply done what any normal person would have done and kill him.  There are lots of examples in the Bible where that's an acceptable course of action.