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Sister Wife (2000)

Sister Wife poster
Directed by
Hadar Kleinman, Timna Goldstein
Genre
documentary film
Country
Israel
Runtime
1h
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about an African American community in Israel that allows polygamy. It focuses on a woman learning her husband plans to take a younger second wife.

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What happens

Sister Wife is a 2000 documentary that follows the African Hebrew Israelites, an African American community that immigrated to Israel and practices polygamy. The men can have up to seven wives. Tsiporra Bat Israel is a member of the Black Hebrew community of Dimona. After 21 years of marriage, she learns that her husband, Hazriel, is marrying a second wife, 14 years her junior. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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