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Mavoi Satum, a volunteer based non-profit organization founded in 1995, is a leading Israeli organization advocating for a permanent solution for agunot and mesuravot get (women denied divorce). Mavoi Satum believes that divorce is a basic human right, that it is every woman's right to leave a bad marriage and live her own life as she chooses. Mavoi Satum has as its core mission to aid mesuravot get on the individual level while promoting broad legal-religious reform in order to prevent the problem from afflicting others in the future.
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What is get refusal? In Israel, marriage and divorce are dictated by Jewish law (halakha), which relies on the volition of the husband to disband a marriage by giving a decree of divorce -- a get -- to his wife. Only a man may give a get, and he must do it freely. Agunot and mesuravot get are women who want to be divorced but are disabled from doing so by controlling men backed by the rabbinical court system. They are women stuck in limbo, unable to move on with their lives in freedom.
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Jewish Divorce - מהי סרבנות גט?
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Mavoi Satum Annual Cinematheque Film Festival Mavoi Satum presented: WOMEN FORGE JUSTICE, the annual film festival together with the Jerusalem Cinematheque, on March 4-5, 2009. The festival included guest speakers lecturer and writer Dr. Orit Kamir, writer Mira Magen, "Harei At" filmmaker sisters Ramit Alon and Leah Dor, Kolech founder Dr. Hana Kehat, as well as Prof. Yedidya Stern, poet Hava Pinkas Cohen, Dr. Ronit Ir-Shai, and more.
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