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This paper (in Hebrew) compares the Israeli Supreme Court's rhetoric concerning the petitions filed against the Pride Parade in Jerusalem in 2006-2008, as opposed to its rhetoric in the short opinion it handed down concerning the extreme right's petition to have their march in Umm al-Fahm approved (in February 2009). While the Court carefully considered all the pros and cons with respect to the Pride Parades in Jerusalem (such as freedom of speech v. offending the religious population of the city), it treated the extreme right parade in the Israeli-Arab town of Umm al-Fahm as a simple case, issuing a short decision which concerns only issues of timing of the march, and ignoring the dilemmas of freedom of speech and the provocation this march was meant to stir. In the paper I provide some explanations for the discrepancy between the Courts' rulings.

constitutional law, freedom of speech, religion, nationalism, sexuality, gay studies, feminism, critical race theory, freedom of association, pride parade, Jerusalm, Umm al-Fahm

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This is the English version of an interview with Professor Carol Gilligan on "The Birth of Pleasure."

Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure, feminism, patriarchy, sexuality, gay studies

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This paper discusses the common roots of women's status under Israeli family law and the phenomenon of trafficking in women in Israel. I argue that since under Israeli law marriage is a religious institution, women who get married in a religious ceremony become their husbands' property. Therefore, the logic of trafficking in women appears also within the "normative" context as well - marriage.

marriage, divorce, trafficking, equality, women, Jewish law, feminism, prostitution, pornography, Israeli law

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This paper explores the tension between Israeli law and Israeli culture regarding interfaith marriage of Jewish women in Israel.

interfaith marriage, feminism, Jewish law, Israeli law, literature, culture

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This is an essay about the relationship between law and the humanities. I argue that law serves as an important bridge between the humanities and social sciences, because law has important features of both fields. This peculiar nature situates it within both fields simultaneously yet makes it a member of neither. Interestingly, the art of theater too does not completely fit into either the humanities or the social sciences.

Both Western theater and Western law are the products of classical Greece. They are both rhetorical fields, and both deal with similar dilemmas with strikingly similar means: both law and theater are deeply influenced by the tension between representation and construction of social structures; both enjoy the same history, similar structures and even similar languages. Finally, theatrical and legal experiences alike are whole only when a text is performed before an audience. In theater this is the actual show, and in law, as I argue in this essay, it is the written judgment.

law & theater, law & literature, sexuality, gender studies, feminism, patriarchy

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This article analyses the paradox relating to the tension between cultural perceptions and legal norms. Throughout history, countless nations have instituted limitations on marriage and prohibitions on intermarriage. While many of these prohibitions were, for the most part, gender neutral, meaning that both men and women members of the community were barred from marriage outside the community, cultural norms have treated women marrying foreign men less forgivingly than the opposite case. Using historical sources and ancient texts on intermarriage and sexuality, the article argues that the discrepancy between law and culture is to be found in the early Judeo-Christian tradition, which attributed the foreign male with unquenchable sexual prowess while not perceiving the foreign female in the same vein. As the article argues, this was due to a patriarchal worldview which promoted close scrutiny of and control over women's sexuality. Patriarchy, then, led to the development of a cultural taboo on local women marrying foreign men while ignoring the case of men marrying foreign women, despite the gender neutrality of the initial ban.

race, gender, judaism, law, society, sexuality, anti-semitism, immigration, marriage, intermarriage, family law, constitutional law, religion, comparative law, international, human rights, civil rights, civil marriage, divorce, Jewish law

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This article explores the history of the adoption of religious marriage and divorce law in Israel, and its impact on Israeli women's status.

Jewish law, Israel, feminism, sexuality, equality, gender, marriage, divorce, Golda Meir, rabbinical court, Women's Equal Rights Law

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This essay explores the connection between pen names and shame. The essay is in Hebrew.

shame, guilt, pen name, pseudonym, gay studies, Freud, Sulpicia, feminism, Ruth Benedict

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This is a Hebrew version of an interview with Professor Carol Gilligan on "The Birth of Pleasure".

Carol Gilligan, The Birth of Pleasure, feminism, patriarchy, gay studies, sexuality