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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: http://www.mucjs.org/MELILAH/2004/1.pdf

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, June 2008): 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, June 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Morg.pdf

6. Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "A critique of Za'aqat Dalot" (Working Papers of the Agunah
Research Unit, June 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/ZD.pdf

7. Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Halakhah - Majority, Seniority, Finality and Consensus"
(Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, June 2008): 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, May 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Moredet.pdf
For a Hebrew version, now published in Bar-Ilan Studies in Law 25-2 by Bar-Ilan University Press click here.

10. Avishalom Westreich, "'Umdena: Between Mistaken Transaction (Kidushey Ta'ut) and Terminative Condition" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, November 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Umdena.pdf

11. Avishalom Westreich, "Annulment of Marriage (Hafka'at Kiddushin): Re-examination of an Old Debate" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, June 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Annulment.pdf
For a Hebrew version, to be published (with minor revisions) in Sidra, click here.

12. Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Hafqa'ah, Kefiyyah, Tena'im" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, June 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/HKT.pdf

13. Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Comments on "'En Tenai BeNissu'in" by R. Zevi Gertner and R. Bezalel Karlinski" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, November 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Gertner.pdf


14. Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, "Herut 'Olam (London 1928) by Rabbi Yosef Shapotshnick" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, November 2008): http://www.mucjs.org/Shapotshnick.pdf

15.  Dr. Avishalom Westreich, "History, Dogmatics and Hermeneutics: The Divorce Clause in Palestinian Ketubbot and the Geonic Compulsion of Divorce" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, March 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/DivorceClause.pdf


16. Shoshana Borocin-Knol, "An Historical Overview of Some Overt Ideological Factors in the Development of the Agunah Problem" (PhD thesis; Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, June 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/Knol.pdf

17. Nechama Hadari, "The Concept of Will in the Jewish Law of Divorce" (PhD thesis; Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, June 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/Hadari.pdf

18. Yehudah Abel, "Confronting 'Iggun. A combination of three possible solutions to the problem of the chained wife in Jewish Law" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, July 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/ConfrontingIggun.pdf

19. Yehudah Abel, "Comments on R. Broyde's Tripartite Agreement" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, July 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/Broyde.pdf

20. Yehudah Abel, "Additions" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, July 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/Additions.pdf

21. Bernard Jackson, "Launch Lecture" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, July 2009): http://www.mucjs.org/LaunchLecture.pdf


22. Bernard Jackson, "Draft Final Report" (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, January 2010): http://www.mucjs.org/ARUDraftFinalv.2.pdf N.B.This January 2010 version replaces that of July 2009 (minor corrections and a few substantive additions). A fully revised and final version will be issued in print form. Responses may continue to be sent to bsj@legaltheory.demon.co.uk

23. Bernard Jackson, "Summary Draft Final Report": http://www.mucjs.org/SummaryReport.pdf. This is a 48 page summary of the Full (210 page) Report (Working Papers of the Agunah Research Unit, January 2010). We hope in due course to produce a Hebrew version.

24. Bernard Jackson, "Key Points from Agunah Report". This 5-page Executive Summary is available in both English and Hebrew.

 

 

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