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NB1: The contents
of these paper are purely theoretical. Nothing written
or cited in them is intended for use in practice.
Any practical question in the area of personal status
in Orthodox Judaism, whether touching upon marriage,
divorce, bastardy or conversion, must be submitted
to those with the appropriate Orthodox halakhic authority.
NB2: These working papers are periodically
updated. To receive alerts of such updates, please
send an e-mail request to bernard.jackson@manchester.ac.uk
1.
B.S. Jackson, "Agunah and the Problem of Authority"
- Text of lecture delivered in London on 13th March
2001 under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced
Legal Studies, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies and the Jewish Law Publication Fund Trustees
http://www.mucjs.org/2001jlpf.pdf
2.
B.S. Jackson, "Agunah and the Problem of Authority:
Directions for Future Research", Melilah 2004/1,
pp.1-78 - a much expanded, fully documented version
of the above lecture, available in both pdf
(Acrobat) and Word
versions.
3.
B.S. Jackson, “Agunah: Problems of History and
Authority”, Paper delivered at JOFA Fourth International
Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy, New York, November
10th, 2002, http://www.mucjs.org/jofaweb.htm
4.
Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "The Plight of the 'Agunah
and Conditional Marriage" (Working Papers of
the Agunah Research Unit, December 2006): http://www.mucjs.org/MELILAH/2005/1.pdf
5. Rabbi
Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Rabbi Morgenstern's Agunah
Solution" (Working Papers of the
Agunah Research Unit, January 2007): http://www.mucjs.org/Morg.pdf
6. Rabbi
Dr. Yehudah Abel, "A critique of Za'aqat Dalot"
(Working Papers of the Agunah
Research Unit, December 2006):
http://www.mucjs.org/ZD.pdf
7. Rabbi
Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Halakhah - Majority, Seniority,
Finality and Consensus"
(Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, December
2006): http://www.mucjs.org/Consensus.pdf
8.
B.S. Jackson, "Preliminary Report of the Agunah
Research Unit" (Working
Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, December 2006):
http://www.mucjs.org/PrelimRep.pdf
9. Avishalom Westreich, "Compelling a Divorce? Early Talmudic Roots of Coercion in a Case of Moredet" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, August 2007): http://www.mucjs.org/Westreich.pdf
10. Avishalom Westreich, "'Umdena: Between Mistaken Transaction (Kidushey Ta'ut) and Terminative Condition" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, November 2007): http://www.mucjs.org/Umdena.pdf |
