SJFF 2023 | Panel Discussion: DIVORCE DENIED (Mar. 22, 2023)
28th Seattle Jewish Film Festival 2023 - Cinemanna
Film Screening Panel Discussion: DIVORCE DENIED
GUEST PANELISTS:
Dr. Smadar Ben-Natan is affiliate faculty at UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies where she teaches on law and religion in Israel. She specializes in law and society and human rights in Israel/Palestine and has been a longtime Israeli human rights lawyer.
Rabbi Moshe Kletenik is the Av Beit Din, Head of the Religious Court, of the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle, the Pacific Northwest Regional Beth Din.
Dr. Mika Ahuvia (moderator), is the Herbert L. & Lucia S. Pruzan Chair in Jewish Studies and the Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She publishes on gender and rabbinic literature, ancient ritual-magic, and late antique archaeology.
ABOUT THE FILM: An Israeli swimming coach living in the United States must unexpectedly return to Israel. A seemingly innocuous visit with a childhood friend and his fiancée sets in motion a chain of events that will irrevocably change all of their lives
Live Interview at Stroum Jewish Community Center
Hosted by Pamela Lavitt, Director of Arts + Ideas and Festivals
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