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Elimelech (Melech) Westreich 67875350 Tel Aviv University‏

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Faculty: Law

Home address: 9 Feldman St. Petach Tiqva 49549

Phone No.: 03-9338293

Date of birth 12/01/50

Place of birth Israel

Zahal military service:

Date of enlistment 23/01/68

Date of discharge 06/10/73

Marital Status Married

No. Of Children 4

A. EDUCATION

1. Academic Education

1973-1976 LL.B. - Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

1978-1980 LL.M. - Tel-Aviv University. Graduated cum laude.

1983-1990 Doctor of Law, Hebrew University.‏‏‏

Title of Master’s Jewish thesis: “The Duty of Endangering Onself in Saving the Life of

Another, in Jewish Law”

Supervisors: Prof. A. Shaki and Prof. A. Kirschenbaum

Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “Grounds for Permitting a Man to Marry Bigamously in

Jewish Law”

Supervisor: Prof. M. Elon, Vice President of the Israeli Supreme Court

B. FURTHER STUDIES

1968-1971 Kerem-Beyavne Yeshiva. Ordained as Rabbi by the Rabbis of the yeshiva.

1975-1976 Kolel yeshiva: Advanced Torah Institute, Bar-Ilan University.

1984-1999 A Rabbi in reserves in the I.D.F.

Elimelech (Melech) Westreich 67875350 Tel Aviv University

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C. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1977-1979 Apprentic and Lawyer M. Caspi’s law firm and the Fiscal Department, Office of the

Tel Aviv and Central District Attorney’s Office, Tel Aviv, Israel.

1979-1981 Lawyer, the legal Department, the Discount Bank, Tel Aviv, Israel.

1980-1994 Assitant, Tutor and Lecturer, Law faculty, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

1982-1983 Assitant, Talmud Department, Tel-aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

1990 Researcher, the Shalom Hartman Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.

1995-2000 Senior lecturer, Law Faculty, Tel-aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

1996-1997 Researcher, the Shalom Hartman Institute of Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.

1998-1999 Senior Reasercher, The Center for the Study and Teaching of Jewish Law, Sharei-

Mishpat, The College of Legal Studies, Hod Ha-Sharon, Israel.

2000-2010 Associate Professor, Law Faculty, Tel-aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

2000 (autumn) Visiting Scholar, University of North-Western Law School, Chicago, Illinois,

U.S.A.

2001 (spring) Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago,

Illinois, U.S.A.

2005 (autumn) Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago,

Illinois, U.S.A.

2008 (autumn) Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago,

Illinois, U.S.A.

2010-present Professor, Law Faculty, Tel-aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.


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C. ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIETIFIC MEETINGS

YEAR NAME OF MEETING CITY COUNTRY Invited/

organized

1991 Family and Woman's Status in Jewish

Law and Legend", Talmud Dept. Tel Aviv

Univ.

Tel Aviv Israel Invited lecture

1992 The Jewish Law Association Paris France Invited lecture

1993 Twelfth World Congress of Jewish

Studies, Hebrew Univ.

Jerusalem Israel Invited lecture

1994 The Jewish Law Association, Jerusalem Israel Invited lecture

1995 Law and History, Haifa Univ. Haifa Israel Invited lecture

1996 The Jewish Law Association Jerusalem Israel Invited lecture

1997 Thirteen World Congress of Jewish



1998 Law and Judgment in the Shadow of the

Holocaust, The Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv

Univ.


1998 The Jewish Law Association Jerusalem Israel Invited lecture

1999 Judge and Judgement in Jewish Law, The

Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan Univ.

Ramat Gan Israel Invited lecture

2000 Rabbi Chaim David Halevi – The Man

and his Intellectual Creation, Shalom

Hartman Institute


2001 University of Chicago Law School’s

seminar

Chicago, Illinois,

U.S.A.

Invited lecture

2001 One Life Against Another – Ethical, Legal

and Halachik Aspects Following the

English Case of the Conjoint Twins, The

Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan Univ.

Ramat Gan Israel Orgenizing

committee;

Invited lecture


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2001 University of Utah Law School’s seminar Salt Lake

City

Utah, U.S.A Invited lecture

2002 The Legal Relations Between Parents and

Chidren, The Faculty of Law, Haifa Univ.

Haifa Israel Invited lecture

2003 Halachik Law in Islam and Judaism in

Transitions of Time, The Van Leer

Institute

Jerusalem Israel Commentator

2003 Law in a Multi-cultural Society, The

Faculty of Law, The Faculty of Law,

Milan Univ.

Milan Italy Invited lecture

2003 The Halachik, and Intelectual Legacy of

Rabbi B”Z Uziel, The Faculty of Law,

Bar Ilan Univ.


2003 the Inter-University Seminar on Jewish

Law

Jerusalem,

Tel Aviv,

Bar Ilan

Israel Co-Organizer

2004 A symposium on Family Law and

Religious Law in the Abrahamic Faiths,

Bellagio Study Center, Italy

Bellagio Italy Commentator

2004 Fez – A Millennium of Creativity: Fez

and Other Moroccan Cities as Torah and

Culture Centers, Bar Ilan University


2005 The fourteenth World Congress of Jewish



2005 University of Chicago Law School’s

seminar

Chicago Illinois,

U.S.A

Invited lecture

2006 The Jews in France: Past, Present and

Future, Bar Ilan Univ.


2006 The fourteenth Jewish Law Association Ramat Gan Israel Invited lecture


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Conference, Bar Ilan Univ.

2007 Law, Religion and Modernity in the

Middle East, The Faculty of Law, Tel

Aviv Univ.


2007 the New Family, The Faculty of Law,

Haifa Univ.


2007 Widows and Gender, The Van Leer

Jerusalem Institute


2007 A symposium to mark the publication of

the book: A. Enker, Priciples in Jewish

Criminal Law, The Faculty of Law, Bar

Ilan Univ.


2007 A conference of lawyers on: “Tort Law” Eilat Israel Invited lecture

2008 Jews and Muslims in Germany - Culture,

Law and Politics: from the Age of

Emancipation to the Time of

Multiculturalism, Tel Aviv Univ.


2008 A conference in honour of Dr. Rabbi M.

Amar, Bar Ilan Univ.


2008 The Jewish Law Association conference,

Manchester Univ.

Manchester United

Kingdom

Invited lecture

2008 The Agunah Workshop, Manchester

Univ.

Manchester United

Kingdom

Invited lecture

2009 Money Matters: The Law, Economics,

and Politics of Currency, The Faculty of

Law, Tel Aviv Univ.


2009 The Regulatory State at the 21st Century:

Fundamental Questions in the Design of

Ramat Gan Israel Commentator


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Regulatory Policy- Lessons from the

Environmental Field, The Faculty of

Law, Bar Ilan Univ.

2009 The conference in honour of Prof. M”A

Friedman, The department of Hebrew

Culture, Tel Aviv Univ.


2009 A conference of lawyers on: “The Law of

Inheritance

Eilat Israel Invited lecture

2009 Secularism, Nationalism and Human

Rights: Law and Politics in the Middle

East and Europe, The Faculty of Law, Tel

Aviv Univ.



the book “Rabbi Uzziel and his Peers –

Studies in the Religious Thought of

Oriental Rabbis in 20th

Century Israel”

(Z. Zohar, Editor) Van Leer Institute


2010 The Jewish Law Association sixteenth

International Conference, The Faculty of

Law, Netanya Academic College

Netanya Israel Orgenizing

committee;

Invited lecture

2010 The Ottoman Legacy in the Land of

Israel”, The Department of the History of

the Middle East, Haifa Univ.


2010 Jewish Law and Legal Theories Kibutz

Zova

Israel Invited lecture

2010 a symposium to mark the publication of

the book: “Sefer Tikkun Soferim of

Rabbi Itzhak Tzabah-Copied in

Jerusalem in the Year 1653 By Yehudah



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Mor’ali”, the Center for the Reasearch of

the Diaspora, Tel Aviv Univ.

2010 Polygamy, Polygyny and Polyamory –

Ethical and Legal Perspectives on Plural

Marriage”, Brandeis University

Waltham, MA, U.S.A Invited lecture

2010 Rights and Obligations in the

Contemporay Family – Retheorizing

Individualism, Families and the States”,

The Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv Univ.

Tel Aviv Israel Commentator

2010 A symposium on: “Doctors and

Craftsmen in the Service of Islamic

Law”, to mark the publication of the

book of Dr. R. Shaham, “the Expert

Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine and

Crafts in the Service of Law (Chicago:

Chicago University Press, 2010), The

Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic

Studies, The Hebrew Univ.


2012 Conference on: "The Jewry of Provence"

Aix-en-

Provence

France (Invited lecture)

2012 conference on: "Jews and Judaic Studie

in Latvia and the neighboring countries",

Riga Latvia

2012 International Colloquium: Recent

Developments in Private Law: German

and Israeli Perspectives",


2013 "In - Between: Trade and Legal Pluralism

in the Era of the Geniza"


1991 “A Wife’s Sterility in Hebrew Law”, Conference on: “Family and Woman’s Status in Jewish

Law and Legend”, Talmud Department, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. (Invited

lecture)


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1992 “Legal Reasoning in Jewish Law”, The Jewish Law Association, Paris, France. (Invited

lecture)

1993 Claims for Divorce and License to Marry Owing to the Infetility of the Wife, in the Rulings

of the Rabbinical Court”, Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.

(Invited lecture)

1994 Medicine and Jewish Law in Rabbinical Courts of Israel: Matters of Infertility”, The Jewish

Law Association, Jerusalem, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1995 The Right of the Wife to Have a Child in Jewish Law”, Law and History, University of Haifa,

Haifa, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1996 “Modern Science and Medicine in Rabbinical Courts of Israel”, The Jewish Law Association,

Jerusalem, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1997 “The Decline of the Rule to Divorce a Husband of a Rebellious Wife”, Thirteen World

Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalm, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1998 “One Life Against Another in the Holocaust – a Singular Point for the Jewish Law? ” a

conference on: “Law and Judgment in the Shadow of the Holocaust,” Tel Aviv University,

Tel Aviv, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1998 “The Jewish Woman’s Marital Status – Interactions among Various Traditions”, The Jewish

Law Association, Jerusale, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1999 “Judge and Judgement in Jewish Law”, Bar Ilan University Law School, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

(Invited lecture)

2000 “Legal Rullings of Rabbi Chaim David Halevi in Matters of Family Law", the conference on

Rabbi Chaim David Halevi – The Man and his Intellectual Creation. Shalom Hartman

Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2001 “The Wife's Right to Divorce Her Husband In Medieval Jewish Law - Between Islam and

Christianity”, University of Chicago Law School’s seminar, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. (Invited

lecture)

2001 “The case of the Conjoint Twins according to Jewish Law”, the conference on: “One Life

Against Another – Ethical, Legal and Halachik Aspects Following the English Case of the

Conjoint Twins”. The Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. (Orgenizing

committee; Invited lecture)

2001 “Polygamy in Post-Biblical Jewish Law: The Rise of Different Traditions”. University of

Utah Law School’s seminar, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. (Invited lecture)

2002 "One Paternity or Many Paternities – Fetus Tests in the Rabbinical Courts", the conference

on: “The Legal Relations Between Parents and Chidren”, Haifa University Law School, Haifa

Israel. (Invited lecture)

2003 "Halachik Law in Islam and Judaism in Transitions of Time", The Van Leer Institute,

Jerusalem, Israel. (Commentator)

2003 “Jewish Woman’s Marital Status in Renaissance Italy: Interactions among ethnic groups and

legal traditions”, the conference on: “Law in a Multi-cultural Society, The Faculty of Law,

University of Milan, Milan, Italy. (Invited lecture)


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2003 “The Legal Activity of R. Uziel in Matters of Family Law”, the conference on: “The

Halachik, and Intelectual Legacy of Rabbi B”Z Uziel, Bar Ilan University Law School,

Ramat Gan, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2003 Organizer of the Inter-University Seminar on Jewish Law.

2004 A symposium on: “Family Law and Religious Law in the Abrahamic Faiths” Bellagio

Study Center, Italy, (April 19-23, 2004). (Commentator)

2004 "Protecting the Matrimonial Status of the Wife – From Spain to Fez and Morroco",

the conference on: Fez – A Millennium of Creativity: Fez and Other Moroccan Cities

as Torah and Culture Centers , Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. (May 18-19, 2004).

(Invited lecture)

2005 "The Wife's income in Jewish Law", The fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies,

Jerusalem, Israel. (July 31 2005), (Invited lecture)

2005 "Levirate Marriage in the Era of the State of Israel: Ethnic Encounter and the Challenge of

Modernity", University of Chicago Law School’s seminar, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. (Invited

lecture)

2006 "Commercial Instruments in Jewish Law in Middle ages France", the conference on: “The

Jews in France: Past, Present and Future”, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. (May,

2006). (Invited lecture)

2006 "Commercial Instruments in Jewish Law in the Talmud and Gaonic Era",

The fourteenth Jewish Law Association Conference, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

(Invited lecture)

2007 "Law, Religion and Modernity in Eastern Jewish Communities: Changes in the Law of

Levirate Marriage", conference on “Law, Religion and Modernity in the Middle East”, Tel-

Aviv University Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel. (January 2007). (Invited lecture)

2007 "Non-Marital Cohabitation in Israel as Neo-Polygany", conference on "the New Family",

Haifa University Law School, Haifa, Israel (May 2007). (Invited lecture)

2007 "The Jewish Widow in the Mediterranean: A long Way (some times) to Independence", the

conference on: “Widows and Gender”, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel

(December, 2007). (Invited lecture)

2007 A symposium to mark the publication of the book: A. Enker, Priciples in Jewish Criminal

Law”, Bar Ilan University Law School, Ramat Gan, Israel. (Invited lecture) 2007 “Jewish Tort Law in Family Matters”, a conference of lawyers on: “Tort Law”, Eilat, Israel.

(Invited lecture)

2008 "The Attitude of Jewish Law toward State Laws and Modern Science in German Speaking

Countries in the Era of Emancipation and Acculturation", the conference on: “Jews and

Muslims in Germany - Culture, Law and Politics: from the Age of Emancipation to the

Time of Multiculturalism”, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2008 "Legal Interactions between the Moroccan and Israeli Rabbinical Courts", the conference in

honour of Dr. Rabbi M. Amar, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2008 Interactions Between the Rabbinical Courts of Morocco and the State of Israel" Jewish Law

Association, Manchester, U.K. (July 2008). (Invited lecture)

2008 The Agunah Workshop, Manchester, U.K. (July 2008).


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2009 "Evolution (of Elements) of Negotiability in Jewish Law in Medieval Spain", a conference

on: “Money Matters: The Law, Economics, and Politics of Currency,” Tel- Aviv University

Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel (January, 2009). (Invited lecture)

2009 Commentator to: “Shachar Lifshitz - Married Against their Will? Toward a Pluralist

Regulation of Spousal Relationships”, a conference on: “The Regulatory State at the 21st

Century: Fundamental Questions in the Design of Regulatory Policy- Lessons from the

Environmental Field”, Bar Ilan University Law School, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

(17-19 May 2009). (Commentator)

2009 “The Rebellious wife in the Rabbinical Court and the Suprem Court of Israel” the

conference in honour of Prof. M”A Friedman, The department of Hebrew Culture, Tel

Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (May, 2009). (Invited lecture)

2009 “The Right of the Widow to Alimony” a conference of lawyers on: “The Law of Inheritance”,

Eilat, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2009 “Jewish Law in a Muslim environment under European cultural influences: Changes in the

status of women in the legal work of Moroccan sages in the 20th century”, a conference on:

“Secularism, Nationalism and Human Rights: Law and Politics in the Middle East and

Europe” Tel Aviv University Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel (December 20-21, 2009).

(Invited lecture)

2009 “Outlines to the Halachik Decisien Making of the Rabbies of the Hazan Family”, a

symposium to mark the publication of the book “Rabbi Uzziel and his Peers – Studies in

the Religious Thought of Oriental Rabbis in 20th

Century Israel (Z. Zohar, Editor)” Van

Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel (December 21 2009). (Invited lecture)

2010 “Elements of Negotiability in Jewish Law in Western and Central Europe”.the Conference

of The Jewish Law Association sixteenth International Conference Netanya, Israel.

(Orgenizing committee; Invited lecture)

2010 “The Ottoman Structure of the Religious Courts in Israel and its continuing presence in the

Israeli Legal System”, conference on: “The Ottoman Legacy in the Land of Israel”, The

Department of the History of the Middle East, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel (April 14


2010 “The Jewish Law and the Historical School”, a conference on: “Jewish Law and Legal

Theories”, Kibutz Zova, Israel (July, 5-8, 2010). (Invited lecture)

2010 “Protecting the Legal Status of the Wife in the Deeds of the collection “Tikkun Soferim”, a

symposium to mark the publication of the book: “Sefer Tikkun Soferim of Rabbi Itzhak

Tzabah-Copied in Jerusalem in the Year 1653 By Yehudah Mor’ali”, the Center for the

Reasearch of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv Univesity, Tel Aviv Israel. (Invited lecture)

2010 “Jewish Legal Responses to Polygamy from Medieval Times to Modern Days”, conference

on: “Polygamy, Polygyny and Polyamory – Ethical and Legal Perspectives on Plural

Marriage”, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, U.S.A (November 2010). (Invited lecture)

2010 A commentator to the lecture of Ayelet Blecher-Prigat “The Costs of Raising Children”,

conference on: “Rights and Obligations in the Contemporay Family – Retheorizing


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Individualism, Families and the States”, Tel Aviv University Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel

(December, 2010). (Commentator)

2010 “Science and Medicine in the Religious Courts in Israel and Egypt – A comparison”, a

symposium on: “Doctors and Craftsmen in the Service of Islamic Law”, to mark the

publication of the book of Dr. R. Shaham, “the Expert Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine

and Crafts in the Service of Law (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010), The Nehemia

Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (December,

2010). (Invited lecture).

2012 "Elements of Negotiability in Jewish Law in Provence", conference on: The Jewry of

Provence, Aix-Marseille Université, France (February, 2012). (Invited lecture)

2012 “Halacha and Medicine in Latvia and Neighboring Countries: The Metzitza Debate at the

turn of the 19th Century”, conference on: "Jews and Judaic Studies in Latvia and the

neighboring countries", University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia (July, 2012). (Invited lecture).

2012 "Circumcision, Modern Medicine and State Law: Two Centuries of Jewish Law Responds",

International Colloquium: "Recent Developments in Private Law: German and Israeli

Perspectives", Tel Aviv University Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel (November, 2012). (Invited

lecture).

2013 Coordinator of a workshop on: "The Personal Dimension of the Halachik Decission

Making". The faculty of law, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

2013 "Commercial Instruments in the Geniza Period", The 4th

Berg International Conference on:

"In - Between: Trade and Legal Pluralism in the Era of the Geniza", Tel Aviv University

Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel (May, 2013). (Invited lecture)

2013 A conferrence on: "Segragation in the University" Tel Aviv University Law School, Tel

Aviv, Israel (Chair of a session)

2013 "Jewish Law and the challenge of women's human rights in the 20th Century: The case of

divorcing a wife against her will in Moroccan legal tradition", The Sixteenth World

Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July 28 – August 1, 2013.

2013 "Rabbi Uziel and his Halachk conections to the Sages of the Chazan Family", The

conference on Rabbi Uziel, Bar Ilan Universiry Law School, Ramat Gan (October, 2013)



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2013 "Legal Elements of Commercial Instruments in the Geniza Period", the Second Annual

Meeting of the Economic History Association of Israel, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

(December, 2013).

2014 "Moroccan Jewish Law Tradition and Modern Medicine: The Case of Circumcision", The

Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law and The David Berg Institute for Law and

History and The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics on: "Circumcision Laws in Judaism and

Islam: Historical Perspectives on Current Controversies", Tel Aviv, 24 February, 2014.


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E. ACADEMIC AND PROFFESIONAL AWARDS

E.1. Internal Grants

Sum P.I. Project Foundation Year ₪‏000666

P.I Protecting the Legal Status of the Wife

in Jewish Law

Cegla Center for

Interdisciplinary Research

of Law

1997

$ 3,500 P.I The Right to Vote and be Elected to

Jewish Ruling Bodies in Moravia

The Minerva Center for

Human Rights

1998

$ 4,500 P.I The Rise and Decline of the Rule of

the Rebellious Wife

Tel Aviv University Fund

for Reasearch

1999

$ 2,000 P.I Legal Activities of the Cheif Rabbis

of Israel During the Mandat Era

The Zakheim Fund 1999

Sum P.I. Project Foundation Year

00666 ₪ P.I A Western View of Eastern Marriage Cegla Center for


of Law

2002

00666 ₪ P.I Levirate Marriage in the Law of the

State of Israel

Cegla Center for


of Law

2003

00666 ₪ P.I From the Talmudic Shtar towards a

Commercial Instrument

Cegla Center for


of Law

4002

00666 ₪ P.I Elements of the Method Of Rabbi

Uziel in Family Matters.

Cegla Center for


of Law

4002

Sum P.I. Project Foundation Year

00666 ₪ P.I Infertility in Jewish Law in Israel: An

Interactions among Various

Traditions

Cegla Center for


of Law

4002

00666 ₪ P.I Outlines of the Doctrine Of Rabbi

Uziel in Family Matters.

Cegla Center for


of Law

4002

00666 ₪ P.I The Law of Levirate Marriage in Fez

in the Pre-Modern Era.

Cegla Center for


of Law

4002

00666 ₪ P.I Introduction to the Book of Verdicts

of the Jewish Court in Meknas,

Morroco.

Cegla Center for


of Law

4002

00666 ₪ P.I Historical Landmarks in the Cegla Center for 4002


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Tradition of Moroccan Jewish

Family Law:

The Case of Levirate Marriages


of Law

00666 ₪ P.I The attitude of Jewish Law toward

state laws and modern science in

German Speaking Countries in the

era of emancipation and

acculturation

Cegla Center for


of Law

4002

0666 ₪ P.I Evolution (of Elements) of

Negotiability in Jewish Law in

Medieval Spain

Cegla Center for


of Law

4002

0066 $ P.I Jewish Law in a Muslim

environment under European cultural

influences: Changes in the status of

women in the legal work of

Moroccan sages in the 20th century

The David Berg Institute

for Law and History

4002

0666 ₪ P.I Jewish Judicial Autonomy in

Jerusalem at the Dawn of the

Ottoman Empire

Cegla Center for


of Law

4000

$ 2500 P.I Jewish Law and the Challenge of

Women's Human Rights in the 20th

Century: Debate among Moroccan

Sages about Divorcing a Woman

Against her Will, and Related

Legislative Attempts

The Minerva Center for

Human Rights

2010

12,000 ₪

P.I The Response of the Rabbinical

Court of Israel to the Challenges of

Modernity

Cegla Center for


of Law

2011

6,000 ₪ P.I Jewish Law and Medicine at the

Modern Era in the Moroccan

Tradition

The David Berg Institute

for Law and History

2012

4000 ₪ P.I Elements of Negotiability in Jewish

Law in Provence

Cegla Center for


of Law

2012

12,000 ₪ P.I Facing the Challenges of Modernity:

The Childless Widow in the

Sephardic Legal Traditions

Cegla Center for


of Law

2012

E.1.2 External Grants

1987-1988 The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, $ 5,000 (P.I)


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1986-1987 Bar Ilan University, Weiler Foundation, $ 2000 (P.I)

1989-1990 Shalom Hartman Institue, The Institue for Advanced Studies, $ 3,000 (P.I)

1994-1995 The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, $ 3,500 (P.I)

1995 The American Academy for Jewish Research,‘Herem DeRabbenu Gershom’,

$ 2,500 (P.I)

1996-1997 Shalom Hartman Institue, The Institue for Advanced Studies, $ 5,500 (P.I)

1997-1998 The Center for the Study and Teaching of Jewish Law, Sharei-Mishpat, The College

of Legal Studies, ‘Commercial Instruments in Jewish Law’, 90,000 ₪ (P.I)


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E.4 PRIZES

1979 Prize of excellence from the Haim Rozenberg School of Jewish Sciences, Tel Aviv

University, 5,000 ל"י.

1983 The Hebrew University Jerusalem, The Yaacov Hrzog Foundetion. 17,000 shekel

1982-1983 Bar Ilan University, Prizes of exellence and encouragement scholarships for doctorat

students . 40,000 Shekel.

1991 The Hebrew Universuty Jerusalem, Moshe Silberg Prize for doctoral thesis, 4,800 ₪

1994 Pinhas Riklis Memorial Foundation Prize. 15,280 ‏₪

1994-1995 The Minister of Education and Culture, Israel, Prize for Jewish Scholarship.

2013 The Tager Prize for the Excellent paper in Jewish Law, Yaacov Herzog Faculty of

Law, Bar-Ilan University,

F. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

1992 to present Jewish Law Association Studies

2005 to present Israeli Historical Society,

2008-2010 A Member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Law Association

G. DOCTORAL STUDENTS SUPERVISED

1999 Akiva Silvezky (retired to business)

2009 Tzipi Hotovely, “The Relligiuos Chair in the Supreme Court of Israel”

(retired to politics, a member of the Kneset)

MA/LLM STUDENTS SUPERVISED

2010 to present Aviad Bartov, “The Enactments of Yehoshua in Jewish Law”

(M.A. JEWISH LAW student)


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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

A. BOOKS

‏וסטרייך‏אלימלך‏.0

‏מסע‏בין‏מסורות‏–תמורות‏במעמד‏האישה‏במשפט‏העברי‏‏‏‏0858‏(00660‏תשס"ב‏)ירושליםהוצאת‏ספרים‏ע"ש‏י"ל‏מאגנס0‏‏

E. Westreich

Transitions in the Legal Status of the Wife in Jewish Law - A Journey Among Traditions

Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 5762, pp. 377, 2002

Book in PreparationA.1 ‏אלימלך‏וסטרייך‏ .‏0

‏ ‏העטרה ‏ןהחזרת ‏אשכנזים ‏ספרדים0 ‏ליושנה: ‏האלמנה ‏של ‏המשפטי בארץ‏‏העריריתמעמדה‏עמודים(‏866-)כ‏ישראל

Elimelech Westreich

Sephardim, Ashkenazim and the Return to the Old Glory: The Childless Widow in

Eretz Israel (about 300 pp.)

‏0‏שמעון‏שרביט0‏עורכים:אלימלך‏וסטרייךאשר0‏-משה‏בר .‏0

‏(עמודים‏076-כ)‏משה‏עמאר‏העוסקים‏ביהדות‏צפון‏אפריקה‏פרופ'ץ‏מאמרים‏לכבודו‏של‏הרב‏קוב

M. Bar Asher, E. Westreich, S. Sharvit, editors:

A Collection of papers in Matters of the Magreb Jews in Honour of Rabbi Dr.

Moshe Amar.


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B. ORIGINAL ARTICALS

B.1. Articles Published

וסטרייך0‏אלימלך .0‏היתר‏נישואין‏וכפיית‏האשה‏להתגרש‏בפסיקת‏חכמי‏אשכנז‏במאות‏הי"א‏והי"ב‏‏ח.תשמ" 0000-0030‏ומחקרי‏משפט‏‏

Elimelech Westreich

"Polygamy and Compulsory Divorce of the Wife in the Decisions of the Rabbis of

Ashkenaz in the 11th and 12th Centuries", (Hebrew)

Bar-Ilan Law Studies v. 6, 118-164, 1988

וסטרייך0‏לימלךא .0‏עילות‏להתרת‏חרם‏דרבנו‏גרשום‏בימי‏הביניים‏המאוחרים

תשנ"ב-תשנ"א0‏צה-טז0‏לט‏דיני‏ישראל

Elimelech Westreich

"Causes for Lifting the Ban of Rabbi Gershom on Polygamy and Compulsory Divorce

during the late Middle Ages", (Hebrew)

Dinei Israel v. 16, 39-95, 1991-1992

וסטרייך0‏אלימלך .8‏עילות‏להתרת‏חרם‏דרבנו‏גרשום‏באיטליה‏במאות‏הט"ו‏והט"ז

‏תשנ"ב0‏070-005ט0‏‏מחקרי‏משפט

Elimelech Westreich

"Polygamy and Compulsory Divorce of the Wife in Jewish Law in Italy during the

15th and the 16th Centuries", (Hebrew)

Bar-Ilan Law Studies v. 9, 227-256, 1992

4. Elimelech Westreich

A Father's Obligation to Maintain his Children in Talmudic Law

The Jewish Law Annual, Vol. X, pp. 177-212, 1992


Legal Reasoning in Jewish Law: The case of the Melamed,

Jewish Law Association Studies Vol. 7, pp. 221-231, 1994 ‏‏


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וסטרייך0‏אלימלך .0‏הכרעות‏שיפוטיות‏של‏הרא"ש‏בספרד‏ ‏עמנואל‏רקמן‏–מחקרים‏בהלכה‏ובמחשבת‏ישראל ‏פרופ' ‏הרב ‏עורך(0‏‏מוגשים‏לכבוד ‏בר0 )מ.

‏‏‏‏תשנ"ד‏0030-0750עמ'‏רמת‏גן0‏אילן0‏-הוצאת‏אוניברסיטת‏בר

Elimelech Westreich

"Judicial Decisions of Rabbenu Asher in Spain", (Hebrew)

in: Studies in Halakha and Jewish Thought - Presented to Rabbi Prof. Menachem

Immanuel Rekman on his 80th Anniversary (M. Ber, editor), Bar-Ilan University

Press, Ramat Gan, pp. 157-182, 1994

וסטרייך0‏אלימלך .5‏בתי‏הדין‏הרבניים‏בישראל‏תביעות‏האיש‏בשל‏ליקויי‏פריון‏בפסיקת

תשנ"ה‏0096-0000‏כה‏משפטים

Elimelech Westreich

"Husband's Claims in Matters of Infertility in the Rabbinical Court of Israel",

Mishpatim, the Student Law Review, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Vol. 25,

pp. 241-290, 19950 (Hebrew) ‏

וסטרייך0‏אלימלך .3

‏מדע‏ורפואה‏בפסיקת‏בתי‏הדין‏הרבניים‏בישראל‏תשנ"ו‏0090-0070‏כו‏‏משפטים

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Elimelech Westreich

"Innovations of Modern Science and Medicine in the Ruling of the Israeli Rabbinical

Court",

Mishpatim, the Student Law Review, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Vol. 26

pp. 425-492, 1996 (Hebrew) ‏‏וסטרייך0‏אלימלך‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏.‏‏9

‏מצוות‏פריה‏ורבייה‏במשפט‏העברי‏באימפריה‏העותמנית‏במאה‏הט"ז‏.תשנ"ז‏0006-0970‏תעודה‏יג

Elimelech Westreich

"The Commandment of Procreation in Jewish Law in the Sixteenth Century ottoman

Empire"

Te'euda, Vol. 13, pp. 195-240, 1997 (Hebrew)

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“Medicine and Jewish Law in the Rabbinical Courts of Israel: Matters of Infertility".

The Jewish Law Annual, Vol. 12, pp. 45-64, 1997


‘The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought’

Polin Vol. 10, pp. 66-84, 1997

וסטרייך0‏אלימלך.‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏00‏היסטוריים‏לחיוב‏הורים‏במזונות‏ילדיהם-מקורות‏משפטיים

‏תשנ"ח-תשנ"ז0‏רא-יט0‏קסא‏דיני‏ישראל

Elimelech Westreich

“The Legal-Historical Sources of the Parents Obligation to Maintain their children”

(Hebrew), Dinei Israel v. 19, pp. 161-201, 1997

וסטרייך0‏אלימלך‏‏‏‏‏.‏‏‏08

‏ ‏ ‏של‏האישה‏היהודיה‏בישראל ‏הנישואין ‏מסורות‏משפטיות‏של‏עדות‏‏-הגנת‏מעמד מפגש‏בין‏שונות

תשנ"ט0‏805-058ז0‏‏פלילים‏

Elimelech Westreich

“The Jewish Women’s Marital Status in Israel – Interactions among Various

Traditions”, (Hebrew), Pelilim, Israel Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 7, pp. 273-374,

1998

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‏זכות‏האישה‏לילד‏במשפט‏העברי‏‏‏0‏מרכז‏זלמן‏שזר‏לתולדות‏ישראל00‏)דני‏גויטיין‏ומ'‏מאוטנר0‏עורכים(משפט‏והיסטוריה‏‏‏תשנ"ט‏000-0680ירושלים0‏‏

Elimelech Westreich

“The Women’s Right to a Child in Jewish Law”, (Hebrew)

in: Law and History (D. Gutwein and M. Mautner, editors), The Zalman Shazar

Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem, pp. 103-126, 1999

‏ וסטרייך0‏אלימלך.‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏07

‏‏:‏שוניםחשיבה‏משפטית‏במשנתם‏של‏חכמי‏פולין‏הרא‏ובהלכה ‏עברי ‏במשפט ‏עיונים )א'‏‏תשנ"ד -דברי הכנס למשפט עברי ב"ישיבת חכמי לובלין" :

‏0‏תשנ"ט060-038רמת‏גן0‏‏אילן0-0‏הוצאת‏אוניברסיטת‏בראנקר‏וס'‏דויטש0‏עורכים(

Elimelech Westreich

“Legal Reasoning of Early Polish Sages”, (Hebrew)


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in: Studies in Jewish Law – Papers Presented at the Lublin Conference in Jewish Law

(A. Enker and S. Deutch, editors), Bar-Ilan Universuty Press, Ramat-Gan, , pp.183-

204, 1998

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‏אפריקה‏לבין‏ספרד-בין‏צפון‏-מצוות‏ייבום‏ומורדת‏‏ליצחק ‏שאו‏מנחה ‏מ' ‏ברק0 ‏עורכים)א' ‏שטיין0 ‏ה' ‏הדין0)וה0 ‏עורכי ‏לשכת ‏של ‏לאור ‏ההוצאה ‏0

0‏תשנ"ט0000-007‏ירושלים

Elimelech Westreich

“Levirate Marriage and the Rebellious Wife – Between Spain And North-Africa”,

In: Mincha L’Izchak (A’ Barak, M’ Shawa, H’ Stein editors), pp. 145-166, 1999

‏וסטרייך0‏אלימלך.‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏05‏עלייתה‏ושחיקתה‏של‏הלכת‏המורדת

‏תש"ס-0‏תשנ"ח0005-008‏כא‏שנתון‏המשפט‏העבריא(‏

b) The Rise and Decline of the Law of the Rebellious Wife in Medieval Jewish Law,

Jewish Law Association Studies Vol. XII, pp. 207-218, 2002 ‏

‏וסטרייך0‏אלימלך‏‏‏‏‏.‏‏‏03‏בעקבות‏אתגרי‏הציונות‏-עשיית‏משפט‏בידי‏הרבנים‏הראשיים‏בתקופת‏המנדט‏

‏עורכים(‏מאה‏שנות‏ציונות‏דתית ‏שגיא0 ‏וא' ‏שוורץ ‏אילן0-הוצאת‏אוניברסיטת‏בר‏כרך‏ב0‏ )ד' 0‏תשס"ג009-38רמת‏גן0‏

Elimelech Westreich

“The Legal Activities of the Chief Rabbis during the Period of the British Mandate: A

Response to the Zionist Challenge”

in: A Hundred Years of Religious Zionism (A. Sagi & D. Schwartz, ed.) Vol. 2, Bar-

Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, pp. 83-129, 2003 (Hebrew) ‏

19. Elimelech. Westreich

One Life Against Another in the Holocaust - a Singularity Point for Jewish Law?

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 1, pp. 341-367, 2000


Infertility as Ground for Polygamy in Jewish Law in Italy: Interaction among Legal

Traditions at the time of the Renaissance",

Olir – Osservatorio delle liberta ed istituzioni religiose, pp. 1-28, 2003.

http://www.olir.it/areetematiche/70/documents/westreich_infertilityandpolygamy.pdf

http://www.olir.it/areetematiche/70/documents/westreich_infertilityandpolygamy.pdf


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Levirate Marriage in the State of Israel: Ethnic Encounter and the Challenge of a Jewish

State"

Israel Law Review Vol. 37, pp. 426-499, 2003-2004

וסטרייך‏אלימלך.‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏00

נוסרת‏שאוליאן‏נ.‏סולטנה‏‏7600190הערות‏לפסק‏הדין‏ע"א‏מבט‏מערבי‏על‏נישואין‏מזרחיים:‏‏שאוליאן

‏0668-תשס"ג‏0808-8070‏עמ'‏‏המשפט‏גקרית‏א(‏b)‏A Western View of Eastern Marriage:

Comments on the Nusrat Shaulian v Sultana Shaulian Decision

Jewish Law Assciation Studies Vol. XIV, pp. 249-282, 2004. ‏

וסטרייך‏אלימלך.‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏08‏ניצנים‏מוקדמים‏של‏שיטת‏הרב‏עוזיאל‏בענייני‏משפחה

‏)עורך‏ראשי0‏אהרון‏ברק0‏נשיא‏בית‏המשפט‏העליון(0‏‏0ד‏מאזני‏משפט‏-02005‏תשס"ה300-598המכללה‏האקדמית‏נתניה‏בית‏הספר‏למשפטים0‏

Elimelech Westreich

"Early Roots of Rabbi Uziel's Approach on Matters of Family Law", (Hebrew)

Law Review, Netanya Academic College Law School, 4, pp. 793-814, 2005 ‏

וסטרייך‏אלימלך.‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏00‏בין‏הרב‏עוזיאל‏לבין‏הרב‏עובדיה‏יוסף‏–הרב‏חיים‏דוד‏הלוישיפוט‏ומשפט‏במשנת‏

‏עורכים:)הרב‏חיים‏דוד‏הלוי‏האיש‏הלכתית‏של‏-עיונים‏ביצירתו‏ההגותית‏–יהדות‏של‏חיים‏‏ירושלים0 0אילן-לטה‏למשפטים0‏אוניברסיטת‏ברהפקוומכון‏שלום‏הרטמן‏0‏א'‏שגיא‏וצבי‏זוהר(

‏00667‏050-009

Elimelech Westreich

“Legal Rullings of Rabbi Chaim David Halevi in Matters of Family Law – Between

R. B"Z Uziel and R. Ovadia Yosef”,

in: A Living Judaism: Essays on the Halakhic Thought of Rabbi Chaim David

Halevi (Z. Zohar and A. Sagi editors), Shalom Hartman Institute and the Faculty of

Law, Bar-Ilan University, Jerusalem, pp. 129-174, 2005


Historical Landmarks of the Tradition of Moroccan Jewish Family Law: The

Case of Levirate Marriages

the Jewish Law Association Studies Vol. XVII, 279-322, 2007


Elements of Negotiability in Talmudic and Geonic Times

Jewish Commercial Law – Essays in Memory of George Webber (Edited by J.

Cohen), `Jewish Law Association Studies Vol. XIX, pp. 247-274, 2008


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27. Elimelech (Melech) Westreich

The Response of Jewish Law to Modern Science and State Laws in German-

Speaking Countries in the Nineteenth Century (Juden und Muslime in Deutschland:

Recht, Religion, Identitat, Herausgegeben von Jose Brunner und Shai Lavi),

Tel Aviver Jahrbuch fur deutsche Geschichte Vol. 37, Wallstein Verlag,

Goettingen, pp. 44-62, 2009

וסטרייך‏אלימלך.‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏03

‏דיני‏המשפחה‏מול‏אתגרי‏המודרנה:‏הפולמוס‏על‏נישואי‏ייבום‏בקרב‏חכמי‏מרוקו‏‏.תש"ע-0‏תשס"ט005-008כז0‏-כו‏דיני‏ישראל

Elimelech Westreich

"Jewish Family Law Meets the Challenge of Modernity: The Debate on Levirate

Marriage among Moroccan Sages"

Dinei Israel, Vol. 26-27, 163-217, 2009-2010 (Hebrew)


Elements of Negotiability in Jewish Law in Medieval Christian Spain,

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 11, pp. 411-439, 2010

‏וסטרייך‏אלימלך‏ .‏‏‏‏‏‏30‏:‏0900עד‏‏0300בית‏הדין‏הרשמי‏בירושלים‏בשנים‏

‏‏ומעמדו‏בקרב‏קהילות‏יהודיותהרכבו‏החברתי‏, 2012260-235 pp. ,Vol. 19 The Jewish Law Annual‏‏

Elimelech Westreich

“The Official Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem in the 19th Century: Its Status among

Jewish Communities and the Social and Cultural Background of the Judges”,

The Jewish Law Annual Vol. 19, 235-260, 2012 (Hebrew).

31. Elimelech Wesstreich,

"Jewish Judicial Autonomy in Nineteenth Century Jerusalem: Background,

Jurisdiction, Structure",

Jewish Law Association Studies. XXII, pp. 303-330

‏0וסטרייך‏אלימלך‏.32‏ירושלים‏במאה‏הי"טהייבום‏בפסיקתם‏של‏דייני‏

‏תשע"ג.0‏216-155כט0‏‏דיני‏ישראל

Elimelech Westreich

‘Levirate Marriage in Judicial Desicions of Nineteenth Century Jerusalem'

Dinei Israel, Vol. 29 pp. 155-216, 2013 (Hebrew)


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אלימלך‏וסטרייך0‏.88‏ניעת‏עיגון‏בייבום‏בתקנת‏מגורשי‏קסטיליה‏בפאסמ

‏ ‏וערים‏אחרות‏במרוקו ‏יצירה‏-פאס ‏שנות ‏בר‏אלף ‏משה ‏שמעון‏-)עורכים: ‏עמאר0 ‏משה אשר0‏.תשע"ג‏0880-805‏0‏בר‏אילן0‏רמת‏גןשרביט(

‏Elimelech Westreich,

"Legislation by Castilian Immigrants in Fes to Prevent the Incidence of Igun in

Cases of Levirate Marriage"

Fes and other Moroccan Cities – A Thousand Years of Creativity (M. Bar-Asher,

M. Amar, S. Shrvit, ed.), Ramat-Gan, 317-334 2013.

אלימלך‏וסטרייך .80 העשרים‏במאה‏מרוקו‏במסורת‏עברי‏ומשפט‏רפואה‏בין‏גשפבמ‏ראשונים‏עיונים

‏0608-תשע"ג‏0090-089‏לז‏עיוני‏משפט‏

Elimelech Westreich,

"Medicine and Jewish Law in Moroccan Tradition in the 20th Century"

Tel-Aviv University Law Review, Iyunei Mishpat, Vol. 37 139-194, 2013.

B.1. Accepted for Publication

35. Elimelech Westreich,

Elements of Negotiability in Jewish Law in Provence

Les Juiffs en Provence (Edouard Robberechts, ed.) Aix*Marseille Universite

C.1. Submitted for Publication

‏אלימלך‏וסטרייך0 .80‏מספרד‏למרוקו:‏מאבק‏בהברחת‏נכסים‏מנושים‏במשפט‏העברי

מאר‏העוסקים‏ביהדות‏צפון‏אפריקה‏.‏קובץ‏מאמרים‏לכבודו‏של‏הרב‏פרופ'‏משה‏ע

‏)אשר0‏אלימלך‏וסטרייך0‏שמעון‏שרביט-עורכים:‏משה‏בר)‏

Elimelech Westreich,

From Spain to Morocco: The Struggle against Circumventing Creditors in Jewish Law,

Collection Papers in Honour of Moshe Amar (M. Bar-Asher, E. Westreich, S. Sharvit,

ed.)

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D. 1. INVITED AND PRESENTED PAPERS IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

YEA

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Title of Paper Invited/Orgen

ized

1991 “A Wife’s Sterility in Hebrew Law”

Talmud Department, Tel Aviv

University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Invited lecture

1992 “Legal Reasoning in Jewish Law”, The Jewish Law Assoc. Paris,

France

Invited lecture

1993 “Claims for Divorce and License to

Marry Owing to the Infetility of the Wife,

in the Rulings of the Rabbinical Court”,

Twelfth World Congress of

Jewish Studies, Hebrew Univ.

Jerusalem, Israel

Invited lecture

1994 “Medicine and Jewish Law in

Rabbinical Courts of Israel: Matters of

Infertility”

Jewish Law Association,

Jerusalem, Israel

Invited lecture

1995 “The Right of the Wife to Have a Child

in Jewish Law”, Law and History

Haifa Univ. Haifa, Israel. Invited lecture

1996 “Modern Science and Medicine in

Rabbinical Courts of Israel”

The Jewish Law Association,

Jerusalem, Israel.

Invited lecture

1997 “The Decline of the Rule to Divorce a

Husband of a Rebellious Wife”

Thirteen World Congress of

Jewish Studies, Jerusalm, Israel

Invited lecture

1998 “One Life Against Another in the

Holocaust – a Singular Point for the

Jewish Law?”, Law and Judgment in the

Shadow of the Holocaust,

The Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv

Univ. Tel Aviv, Israel.

Invited lecture

1998 “The Jewish Woman’s Marital Status –

Interactions among Various Traditions”

The Jewish Law Association,

Jerusale, Israel.

Invited lecture

1999 “The Custom of Beith Din”, Judge and

Judgement in Jewish Law

The Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan

Univ. Ramat, Gan Israel

Invited lecture

2000 “Legal Rullings of Rabbi Chaim David

Halevi in Matters of Family Law",

Rabbi Chaim David Halevi – The Man

and his Intellectual Creation.

Shalom Hartman Institute,

Jerusalem, Israel.

Invited lecture

2001 “The Wife's Right to Divorce Her

Husband In Medieval Jewish Law -

Between Islam and Christianity”

University of Chicago Law

School’s seminar, Chicago,

Illinois, U.S.A.

Invited lecture

2001 “The case of the Conjoint Twins

according to Jewish Law”, One Life

Against Another – Ethical, Legal and

Halachik Aspects Following the English



Invited lecture


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Case of the Conjoint Twins.

2001 “Polygamy in Post-Biblical Jewish Law:

The Rise of Different Traditions”.

”University of Utah Law

School’s seminar , Lake

City, Utah, U.S.A.

Invited lecture

2002 "One Paternity or Many Paternities –

Fetus Tests in the Rabbinical Courts",

The Legal Relations Between Parents

and Chidren.

The Faculty of Law, Haifa

Univ. Haifa, Israel.

Invited lecture

2003 Halachik Law in Islam and Judaism in

Transitions of Time

The Van Leer Institute,

Jerusalem, Israel.

Commentator

2003 “Jewish Woman’s Marital Status in

Renaissance Italy: Interactions among

ethnic groups and legal traditions”,

Law in a Multi-cultural Society,

The Faculty of Law, Milan

Univ. Milan, Italy

Invited lecture

2003 “The Legal Activity of R. Uziel in

Matters of Family Law”, The Halachik,

and Intelectual Legacy of Rabbi B”Z

Uziel.



Invited lecture

2003 the Inter-University Seminar on Jewish

Law

The Faculty of Law, Hebrew

Univ.; The Faculty of Law, Tel

Aviv Univ.; The Faculty of

Law, Bar Ilan Univ.

Co-Organizer.

2004 Family Law and Religious Law in the

Abrahamic Faiths

Bellagio Study Center,

Bellagio, Italy

Commentator

2004 "Protecting the Matrimonial Status of

the Wife – From Spain to Fez and

Morroco", Fez – A Millennium of

Creativity: Fez and Other Moroccan

Cities as Torah and Culture Centers

Bar Ilan Univ. Ramat, Gan

Israel

Invited lecture

2005 "The Wife's income in Jewish Law" The fourteenth World Congress

of Jewish Studies, Hebrew

Univ. Jerusalem, Israel.

Invited lecture

2005 "Levirate Marriage in the Era of the

State of Israel: Ethnic Encounter and

the Challenge of Modernity"

University of Chicago Law

School’s seminar, Chicago,

Illinois, U.S.A

Invited lecture

2006 "Commercial Instruments in Jewish

Law in Middle ages France", The Jews

in France: Past, Present and Future.


Israel.

Invited lecture

2006 "Commercial Instruments in Jewish

Law in the Talmud and Gaonic Era"

The fourteenth Jewish Law

Association Conference, Bar

Ilan University, Ramat Gan,

Israel.

Invited lecture


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2007 "Law, Religion and Modernity in

Eastern Jewish Communities: Changes

in the Law of Levirate Marriage", Law,

Religion and Modernity in the Middle

East.



Invited lecture

2007 "Non-Marital Cohabitation in Israel as

Neo-Polygany", The New Family.

The Faculty of Law, Haifa

Univ. Haifa, Israel.

Invited lecture

2007 "The Jewish Widow in the

Mediterranean: A long Way (some

times) to Independence", Widows and

Gender.

The Van Leer Jerusalem

Institute, Jerusalem, Israel

Invited lecture


the book: A. Enker, Priciples in Jewish

Criminal Law”



Invited lecture

2008 "The Attitude of Jewish Law toward

State Laws and Modern Science in

German Speaking Countries in the Era

of Emancipation and Acculturation",

Jews and Muslims in Germany: Culture,

Law and Politics: from the Age of

Emancipation to the Time of

Multiculturalism.

Minerva Institute for German

History, Tel Aviv Univ.

Invited lecture

2008 "Legal Interactions between the

Moroccan and Israeli Rabbinical

Courts", The conference in honour of

Dr. Rabbi M. Amar.


Israel

Invited lecture

2008 “Interactions Between the Rabbinical

Courts of Morocco and the State of

Israel”.

Jewish Law Association

conference, Manchester Univ.

Manchester, U.K.

Invited lecture

2008 2008 The Agunah Workshop on, Manchester Univ. Manchester,

U.K.

Invited lecture

2009 "Evolution (of Elements) of

Negotiability in Jewish Law in Medieval

Spain", Money Matters: The Law,

Economics, and Politics of Currency.



Invited lecture

2009 “Shachar Lifshitz - Married Against

their Will? Toward a Pluralist

Regulation of Spousal

Relationships”, in the conference on:

“The Regulatory State at the 21st

Century: Fundamental Questions

in the Design of Regulatory Policy-



Commentator


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Lessons from the Environmental

Field”,‏2009 “The Rebellious wife in the Rabbinical

Court and the Suprem Court of Israel”,

the conference in honour of Prof. M”A

Friedman.

The department of Hebrew

Culture, Tel Aviv University,

Tel Aviv, Israel.

Invited lecture

2009 “The Right of the Widow to Alimony”,

“The Israeli Law of Inheritance”,

a conference of lawyers, Eilat,

Israel.

Invited lecture

2009 “Jewish Law in a Muslim environment

under European cultural influences:

Changes in the status of women in the

legal work of Moroccan sages in the

20th century”, Secularism, Nationalism

and Human Rights: Law and Politics in

the Middle East and Europe.



Invited lecture

2009 “Outlines to the Halachik Decisien

Making of the Rabbies of the Hazan

Family”, a symposium to mark the

publication of the book “Rabbi Uzziel

and his Peers – Studies in the Religious

Thought of Oriental Rabbis in 20th

Century Israel (Z. Zohar, Editor)

Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem,

Israel

Invited lecture

2010 “Elements of Negotiability in Jewish

Law in Western and Central Europe”.

The Jewish Law Association sixteenth

International Conference

The Faculty of Law, Netanya

Academic College, Netania,

Israel.

Invited lecture

2010 “The Ottoman Structure of the

Religious Courts in Israel and its

continuing presence in the Israeli

Legal System”, The Ottoman Legacy in

the Land of Israe.

The Department of the History

of the Middle East, Haifa

Univ., Haifa, Israel

Invited lecture

2010 “The Jewish Law and the Historical

School”. Jewish Law and Legal

Theories.

The Faculty of Law, Hebrew

Univ.; The Faculty of Law, Tel

Aviv Univ.; The Faculty of

Law, Bar Ilan Univ., Kibutz

Zova, Israel.

Invited lecture

2010 “Protecting the Legal Status of the Wife

in the Deeds of the collection “Tikkun

Soferim”. A symposium to mark the

publication of the book: “Sefer Tikkun

Soferim of Rabbi Itzhak Tzabah-Copied

in Jerusalem in the Year 1653 By

The Center for the Reasearch

of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv

Univesity, Tel Aviv Israel.

Invited lecture


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Yehudah Mor’ali”,

2010 “Jewish Legal Responses to Polygamy

from Medieval Times to Modern Days”.

Polygamy, Polygyny and Polyamory –

Ethical and Legal Perspectives on Plural

Marriage.

Brandeis Univ. Waltham, MA,

U.S.A

Invited lecture

2010 Ayelet Blecher-Prigat “The Costs of

Raising Children”. A conference on:

“Rights and Obligations in the

Contemporay Family – Retheorizing

Individualism, Families and the States.



Commentator

2010 “Science and Medicine in the Religious

Courts in Israel and Egypt – A

comparison”, A symposium on:

“Doctors and Craftsmen in the Service

of Islamic Law”, to mark the

publication of the book of Dr. R.

Shaham, “the Expert Witness in Islamic

Courts: Medicine and Crafts in the

Service of Law (Chicago: Chicago

University Press, 2010).

The Nehemia Levtzion Center

for Islamic Studies, The

Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem,

Israel.

Invited lecture

2012 "Elements of Negotiability in Jewish

Law in Provence"

Aix-Marseille Université,

France

Invited lecture

2012 “Halacha and Medicine in Latvia and

Neighboring Countries: The Metzitza

Debate at the turn of the 19th Century”

University of Latvia, Riga,

Latvia

Invited lecture

2012 "Circumcision, Modern Medicine and

State Law: Two Centuries of Jewish

Law Responds"

Tel Aviv University Law

School, Tel Aviv, Israel

Invited lecture

2013 "The Legal linkage of Rabbi Uziel to

the Legal Thought of the Sphardic

Judges (Dayanim) in Jerusalem in the

19th Century",

Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem Invited lecture

2013 Commercial Instruments in the Geniza

Period

Tel Aviv University Law

School, Tel Aviv, Israel

Invited lecture

2013 "Jewish Law and the challenge of

women's human rights in the 20th

Century: The case of divorcing a wife

against her will in Moroccan legal

tradition",

The Sixteenth World Congress

of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem,

July 28 – August 1, 2013

Invited lecture


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1993 Claims for Divorce and License to Marry Owing to the Infetility of the Wife, in the Rulings

of the Rabbinical Court”, Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.

(Invited lecture)

1994 Medicine and Jewish Law in Rabbinical Courts of Israel: Matters of Infertility”, The Jewish

Law Association, Jerusalem, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1995 The Right of the Wife to Have a Child in Jewish Law”, Law and History, University of Haifa,

Haifa, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1996 “Modern Science and Medicine in Rabbinical Courts of Israel”, The Jewish Law Association,

Jerusalem, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1997 “The Decline of the Rule to Divorce a Husband of a Rebellious Wife”, Thirteen World

Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalm, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1998 “One Life Against Another in the Holocaust – a Singular Point for the Jewish Law? ” a

conference on: “Law and Judgment in the Shadow of the Holocaust,” Tel Aviv University,

Tel Aviv, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1998 “The Jewish Woman’s Marital Status – Interactions among Various Traditions”, The Jewish

Law Association, Jerusale, Israel. (Invited lecture)

1999 “Judge and Judgement in Jewish Law”, Bar Ilan University Law School, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

(Invited lecture)

2000 “Legal Rullings of Rabbi Chaim David Halevi in Matters of Family Law", the conference on

Rabbi Chaim David Halevi – The Man and his Intellectual Creation. Shalom Hartman

Institute, Jerusalem, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2001 “The Wife's Right to Divorce Her Husband In Medieval Jewish Law - Between Islam and

Christianity”, University of Chicago Law School’s seminar, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. (Invited

lecture)

2001 “The case of the Conjoint Twins according to Jewish Law”, the conference on: “One Life

Against Another – Ethical, Legal and Halachik Aspects Following the English Case of the

Conjoint Twins”. The Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. (Orgenizing

committee; Invited lecture)

2001 “Polygamy in Post-Biblical Jewish Law: The Rise of Different Traditions”. University of

Utah Law School’s seminar, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. (Invited lecture)

2002 "One Paternity or Many Paternities – Fetus Tests in the Rabbinical Courts", the conference

on: “The Legal Relations Between Parents and Chidren”, Haifa University Law School, Haifa

Israel. (Invited lecture)

2003 "Halachik Law in Islam and Judaism in Transitions of Time", The Van Leer Institute,

Jerusalem, Israel. (Commentator)

2003 “Jewish Woman’s Marital Status in Renaissance Italy: Interactions among ethnic groups and

legal traditions”, the conference on: “Law in a Multi-cultural Society, The Faculty of Law,

University of Milan, Milan, Italy. (Invited lecture)


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2003 “The Legal Activity of R. Uziel in Matters of Family Law”, the conference on: “The

Halachik, and Intelectual Legacy of Rabbi B”Z Uziel, Bar Ilan University Law School,

Ramat Gan, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2003 Organizer of the Inter-University Seminar on Jewish Law.

2004 A symposium on: “Family Law and Religious Law in the Abrahamic Faiths” Bellagio

Study Center, Italy, (April 19-23, 2004). (Commentator)

2004 "Protecting the Matrimonial Status of the Wife – From Spain to Fez and Morroco",

the conference on: Fez – A Millennium of Creativity: Fez and Other Moroccan Cities

as Torah and Culture Centers – Bar Ilan University, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

(May 18-19, 2004). (Invited lecture)

2005 "The Wife's income in Jewish Law", The fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies,

Jerusalem, Israel. (July 31 2005), (Invited lecture)

2005 "Levirate Marriage in the Era of the State of Israel: Ethnic Encounter and the Challenge of

Modernity", University of Chicago Law School’s seminar, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. (Invited

lecture)

2006 "Commercial Instruments in Jewish Law in Middle ages France", the conference on: “The

Jews in France: Past, Present and Future”, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. (May,


2006 "Commercial Instruments in Jewish Law in the Talmud and Gaonic Era",

The fourteenth Jewish Law Association Conference, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

(Invited lecture)

2007 "Law, Religion and Modernity in Eastern Jewish Communities: Changes in the Law of

Levirate Marriage", conference on “Law, Religion and Modernity in the Middle East”, Tel-

Aviv University Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel. (January 2007). (Invited lecture)

2007 "Non-Marital Cohabitation in Israel as Neo-Polygany", conference on "the New Family",

Haifa University Law School, Haifa, Israel (May 2007). (Invited lecture)

2007 "The Jewish Widow in the Mediterranean: A long Way (some times) to Independence", the

conference on: “Widows and Gender”, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel

(December, 2007). (Invited lecture)

2007 A symposium to mark the publication of the book: A. Enker, Priciples in Jewish Criminal

Law”, Bar Ilan University Law School, Ramat Gan, Israel. (Invited lecture) 2007 “Jewish Tort Law in Family Matters”, a conference of lawyers on: “Tort Law”, Eilat, Israel.

(Invited lecture)

2008 "The Attitude of Jewish Law toward State Laws and Modern Science in German Speaking

Countries in the Era of Emancipation and Acculturation", the conference on: “Jews and

Muslims in Germany - Culture, Law and Politics: from the Age of Emancipation to the

Time of Multiculturalism”, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2008 "Legal Interactions between the Moroccan and Israeli Rabbinical Courts", the conference in

honour of Dr. Rabbi M. Amar, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2008 Interactions Between the Rabbinical Courts of Morocco and the State of Israel" Jewish Law

Association, Manchester, U.K. (July 2008). (Invited lecture)

2008 The Agunah Workshop on, Manchester, U.K. (July 2008).


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2009 "Evolution (of Elements) of Negotiability in Jewish Law in Medieval Spain", a conference

on: “Money Matters: The Law, Economics, and Politics of Currency,” Tel- Aviv University

Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel (January, 2009). (Invited lecture)

2009 Commentator to: “Shachar Lifshitz - Married Against their Will? Toward a Pluralist

Regulation of Spousal Relationships”, a conference on: “The Regulatory State at the 21st

Century: Fundamental Questions in the Design of Regulatory Policy- Lessons from the

Environmental Field”, Bar Ilan University Law School, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

(17-19 May 2009). (Commentator)

2009 “The Rebellious wife in the Rabbinical Court and the Suprem Court of Israel” the

conference in honour of Prof. M”A Friedman, The department of Hebrew Culture, Tel

Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (May, 2009). (Invited lecture)

2009 “The Right of the Widow to Alimony” a conference of lawyers on: “The Law of Inheritance”,

Eilat, Israel. (Invited lecture)

2009 “Jewish Law in a Muslim environment under European cultural influences: Changes in the

status of women in the legal work of Moroccan sages in the 20th century”, a conference on:

“Secularism, Nationalism and Human Rights: Law and Politics in the Middle East and

Europe” Tel Aviv University Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel (December 20-21, 2009).

(Invited lecture)

2009 “Outlines to the Halachik Decisien Making of the Rabbies of the Hazan Family”, a

symposium to mark the publication of the book “Rabbi Uzziel and his Peers – Studies in

the Religious Thought of Oriental Rabbis in 20th

Century Israel (Z. Zohar, Editor)” Van

Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel (December 21 2009). (Invited lecture) 2010 “Elements of Negotiability in Jewish Law in Western and Central Europe”.the Conference

of The Jewish Law Association sixteenth International Conference Netanya, Israel.


2010 “The Ottoman Structure of the Religious Courts in Israel and its continuing presence in the

Israeli Legal System”, conference on: “The Ottoman Legacy in the Land of Israel”, The

Department of the History of the Middle East, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel (April 14


2010 “The Jewish Law and the Historical School”, a conference on: “Jewish Law and Legal

Theories”, Kibutz Zova, Israel (July, 5-8, 2010). (Invited lecture)

2010 “Protecting the Legal Status of the Wife in the Deeds of the collection “Tikkun Soferim”, a

symposium to mark the publication of the book: “Sefer Tikkun Soferim of Rabbi Itzhak

Tzabah-Copied in Jerusalem in the Year 1653 By Yehudah Mor’ali”, the Center for the

Reasearch of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv Univesity, Tel Aviv Israel. (Invited lecture)

2010 “Jewish Legal Responses to Polygamy from Medieval Times to Modern Days”, conference

on: “Polygamy, Polygyny and Polyamory – Ethical and Legal Perspectives on Plural

Marriage”, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, U.S.A (November 2010). (Invited lecture)

2010 A commentator to the lecture of Ayelet Blecher-Prigat “The Costs of Raising Children”,

conference on: “Rights and Obligations in the Contemporay Family – Retheorizing


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Individualism, Families and the States”, Tel Aviv University Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel

(December, 2010). (Commentator)

2010 “Science and Medicine in the Religious Courts in Israel and Egypt – A comparison”, a

symposium on: “Doctors and Craftsmen in the Service of Islamic Law”, to mark the

publication of the book of Dr. R. Shaham, “the Expert Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine

and Crafts in the Service of Law (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010), The Nehemia

Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (December,


2012 "Elements of Negotiability in Jewish Law in Provence", conference on: The Jewry of

Provence, Aix-Marseille Université, France (February, 2012). (Invited lecture)

2012 “Halacha and Medicine in Latvia and Neighboring Countries: The Metzitza Debate at the

turn of the 19th Century”, conference on: "Jews and Judaic Studies in Latvia and the

neighboring countries", University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia (July, 2012). (Invited lecture)

2012 "Circumcision, Modern Medicine and State Law: Two Centuries of Jewish Law Responds",

International Colloquium: Recent Developments in Private Law: German and Israeli

Perspectives", Tel Aviv University Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel (November, 2012)

2013 "The Legal linkage of Rabbi Uziel to the Legal Thought of the Sphardic Judged (Dayanim)

in Jerusalem in the 19th

Century", a symposium on "Rabbi Uziel", to mark the publication

of the book of Prof. Zvi Zohar "The attitude of Rabbi Uziel towwrds Convesion to

Judaism" Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem (March, 2013)

2013 "Commercial Instruments in the Geniza Period", The 4th

Berg International Conference:

"In-Between: Trade and Legal Pluralism in the Era of the Geniza", Tel Aviv University

Law School, Tel Aviv, Israel (May, 2013).

2013 "Jewish Law and the challenge of women's human rights in the 20th Century: The case of

divorcing a wife against her will in Moroccan legal tradition", The Sixteenth World

Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, July 28 – August 1, 2013

E. ITEMS IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS

1. E. Westreich,

Reception of the Shulchan Aruch in Poland

YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (Gershon David Hundert, Editor

chief) Yale University Press, New Haven & London, p. 1742, 2008.


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Elimelech Westreich, Editor:

Tel-Aviv University Law Review, Iyunei Mishpat, Vol 22(3), 1999-2000; Vol 23(2),

2000; Vol 23(3), 2000-2001;

Vol 24(1); Vol 24(2); Vol 24(3).

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"The Duty of Endangering Onself in Saving the Life of Another, in the Sixteenth Century

Sephardic Jewish Law Tradition",

Yom Kipur in Halacha and Philosophy in Memory of Rabbi Shemuel Orlan (Y. Dreifus,

Ch. Orlan, I. Orlan ed., Hebrew) pp. 169-182, 2014. ‏

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Ron Shaham, The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts - Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law,

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Service of Law, Chicago 20100‏ Hamizrah Hehadash (Hebrew), 50 pp. 151-156, 2011

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