Prof. Avishalom Westreich

1. Elimelech Westreich and Avishalom Westreich, “Chief Rabbinate’s Financial Enactments in Late British Mandate,” 5 Law, Society, & Culture (Tel Aviv University) (forthcoming, 2022) (Heb.).

1. Avishalom Westreich and Avraham Stav, “Conversion of Children Born through Non-Jewish Egg Donation or Surrogacy,” 41 Techumin (2021), pp. 167–178 (Heb.).

1. Avishalom Westreich, “From “‘Ox’ covers all kinds of damage done by ox” (BT Bava Kamma 3b) to “The liability imposed by the Torah in the case of Pit” (BT Bava Kamma 50b): On Mishnah Bava Kamma, Its Redaction and Versions, and Their Relation to the Concept of the Laws of Damages,” JSIJ – Jewish Studies Internet Journal (Bar Ilan University) (2021), pp. 1 – 25 (Heb.)

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1. Avishalom Westreich and Amihai Radzyner, “From Chained Wives to Bastards (Mamzerim): On Revolutions and Creativity in Rabbinical Court Rulings,” 33 Bar-Ilan Law Studies (2021), pp. 139–178 (Heb.)

1. Ron S. Kleinman and Avishalom Westreich, “Law or Justice? The Halakhic Validity of State Law and Rulings which Run Counter to the Dictates of Justice,” 34 Dine Israel (Tel Aviv University) (2020), pp. 391–428 (Heb.)

A short version was published in 41 Techumin (2021), pp. 309–318 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich and Amihai Radzyner, “Revolutionism and Conservatism in the Rulings of the Israeli Rabbinical Courts: Divorce Enforcement on the Grounds of ‘Ma‘is ‘Alai‘ (He Is Repulsive to Me),” 42 Tel Aviv University Law Review(2020), pp. 639–686 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Present–Day Postmortem Sperm Retrieval and Traditional Levirate Marriage: Two Types of Interaction,” 5 Journal of Law and the Biosciences (Oxford Academic) (2018), pp. 759–785.

The article was awarded the first prize of the Davies Award for outstanding paper presented at the 24^th World Congress on Medical Law and Bioethics of the World Association for Medical Law (WAML), September 2018.

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Accommodating Religious Law with a Civil Legal System: Lessons from the Jewish Law Experience in Financial Family Matters,” 33 Journal of Law and Religion (2018), pp. 481 – 503.

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Back to the Future: On the Formation of Civil Marriage and Divorce in Israel – between the ‘Two Routes’ Approach and the ‘Uniform Civil Framework’ Approach,” 10 Din Udvarim – Haifa Law Review (2017), pp. 69–103 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Changing Motherhood Paradigms: Jewish Law, Civil Law, and Society,” 28 Hastings Women’s Law Journal (2017), pp. 97–117

1. ” ‘Is There Anything of Which One Can Say, “Look! This Is Something New”? It Was Here Already Long Ago; It Was Here Before Our Time’ (Ecclesiastes 1:10) – On the Traditional Engagement Contract (Shtar Tenaim) and Modern Prenuptial Agreements,” 41 Zohar (2017), pp. 173–195 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “An International Perspective on Same Sex Marriage Post Obergefell (and Some Thoughts on Legal Positivism as a Means of Reconciliation): The Israeli Case,” 30 BYU Journal of Public Law (2015), pp. 303–323

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Rhetoric and Substance ‘Came Down Wrapped Together’? On Civil Marriage in Israel Following the Noahide Decision,” 6–7 Family in Law Review (2013–2014), pp. 543–578 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Flexible Formalism and Realistic Foundationalism: An Analysis of the Artificial Procreation Controversy in Jewish Law,” 31 Dine Israel (2017), pp. 157–195 (Heb.)

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Avishalom Westreich, Assisted Reproduction in Israel: Law, Religion, and Culture

1. Avishalom Westreich, No Fault Divorce in the Jewish Tradition (Israel Democracy Institute, Human Rights and Judaism Research Project, 2014, iv+95 pp.) (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, Talmud-Based Solutions to the Problem of the Agunah, Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications (Agunah Research Unit, vol. 4, 2012, x+134 pp.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “On the Law and Its Decisor: A Response to Amihai Radzyner,” 6–7 Family in Law Review (2013–2014), pp. 605–613 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Mistake or Condition as a Basis for Marriage Annulment: a Future Development,” 34 Techumin (2014), 419–428 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Annulment of Marriage (Hafka’at Kiddushin): Re-examination of an Old Debate,” 27–28 Sidra – Bar Ilan Journal for the Study of Rabbinic Literature (2013), pp. 111–141 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “The ‘Gatekeepers’ of Jewish Family Law: Marriage Annulment as a Test Case,” 27 Journal of Law and Religion (2011–2012), pp. 329–357

1. Avishalom Westreich, “The Halakhic Status of Children Born by In Vitro Fertilization and the Prohibition of Yihud,” 91–92 Asia (2012), pp. 122–146 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Law and Beyond: Legal and Extralegal Aspects of Talmudic Tort Law,” 26 Shenaton ha–Mishpat ha-Ivri (2009–2011), pp. 203–235 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “A Few Thoughts on Jewish Law Research,” 26 Shenaton ha–Mishpat ha-Ivri (2009–2011), pp. 245–261 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Divorce on Demand: The History, Dogmatics, and Hermeneutics of the Wife’s Right to Divorce in Jewish Law,” 62 Journal of Jewish Studies (2011), pp. 340–363

1. Avishalom Westreich, “The Right to Divorce in Jewish Law: Between Politics and Ideology,” 1 International Journal of the Jurisprudence of the Family (2010), pp. 177–196

1. Avishalom Westreich, “‘Umdena as a Ground for Marriage Annulment: Between Mistaken Transaction (Kiddushei Ta’ut) and Terminative Condition,” 20 Jewish Law Association Studies (2010), pp. 330–352

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Coercion of a get in a Case of Moredet in the Mishnah and Talmud,” 25 Bar-Ilan Law Studies (2010), pp. 563–591 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “The Law of the shen (Demages Caused by Grazing) in the Public Domain: Trends in Tannaitic Teachings,” 23 Dinei Israel (2005), pp. 59–94 (Heb.)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “The Crystallization and Development of the Law of Tz’rorot (Indirectly Caused Damage) in Tannaitic, Amoraic, and Talmudic Traditions,” 19 Sidra – Bar Ilan Journal for the Study of Rabbinic Literature (2004), pp. 77–100 (Heb.)

ARTICLES IN BOOKS

1. Avishalom Westreich and Elimelech Westreich, “Rabbinical Court Rulings in Family Matters and their Influence on Israeli Society,” in: Traditional Instruments and New Challenges: The Squaring of the Circle (Provisional Title), Brill Series in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance (Kerstin Wonisch and Roberta Medda-Windischer, eds., forthcoming 2022).

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Religious Law in the Israeli Civil Marriage and Divorce System: The ‘Is’ and the ‘Ought’,” Jewish Law Association Studies (special issue on The Jewish Family, forthcoming).

1. Avishalom Westreich and Amihai Radzyner, “‘What is crooked cannot be made straight’? – On the Use of the Maharsham’s Marriage Annulment in the State of Israel,” Justice Elyakim Rubinstein’s Festschrift (forthcoming, 2018) (Heb.)

1. Elimelech Westreich and Avishalom Westreich, “Jewish Law: Marriage,” Routledge Handbook on Religious Law (eds. Silvio Ferrari et. al.) (forthcoming, 2018)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “The History of Talmudic Tort Law: A Study in the Law of the ‘Tooth’ and the ‘Leg’ in the Public Domain,” Iggud: Selected Essays in Jewish Studies (eds. Baruch J. Schwartz, Abraham Melamed, and Aharon Shemesh), vol. I (2008), pp. 265–276 (Heb.)

REVIEW ESSAYS

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Book Review: Melanie Landau, Tradition and Equality in Jewish Marriage: Beyond the Sanctification of Subordination,” 28 Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues (2015), pp. 147–151

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Book Review: Aviad Hacohen, The Tears of The Oppressed, An Examination of the Agunah Problem: Background and Halachic Sources,” 17 Jewish Law Annual (2007), pp. 306–313

ENCYLOPEDIA ENTRIES

1. “Marriage” (Judaism, Medieval and Modern Judaism), in: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR), 17 (2019).

BOOK EDITOR

1. Aharon Barak, Dafna Barak-Erez, Stav Cohen, Avishalom Westreich al (eds.), Chief Justice (ret.) Miriam Naor Festschrift (forthcoming, 2022).

1. Avishalom Westreich (ed.), Alei Mishpat – College of Law and Business Law Journal, Vol. 12–16 (2015 – present) (Heb.).

POSITION PAPERS AND ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Avishalom Westreich and Pinhas Shifman, A Civil Legal Framework for Marriage and Divorce in Israel (ed. Ruth Gavison, trans. Kfir Levy, Metzilah Center for Zionist, Jewish, Liberal, and Humanist Thought, 2013).

1. Avishalom Westreich (ed.), Agunah: ‘Iyyun Manchester (Summary of Unit’s Research), Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications (Agunah Research Unit, vol. 6, 2012) (Heb.).

WORKING PAPERS (Agunah Research Unit)

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Compelling a Divorce? Early Talmudic Roots of Coercion in a Case of Moredet,” ARU WP 9, 2008.

1. Avishalom Westreich, “‘Umdena as a Ground for Marriage Annulment: Between Mistaken Transaction (Kidushei Ta’ut) and Terminative Condition,” ARU WP 10, 2008.

1. Avishalom Westreich, “Annulment of Marriage (Hafka‘at Kiddushin): Re–examination of an Old Debate,” ARU WP 11, 2008.

1. Avishalom Westreich, “History, Dogmatics and Hermeneutics: The Divorce Clause in Palestinian Ketubbot and the Geonic Compulsion of Divorce,” ARU WP 15, 2009.