The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law presents: Guy Priver, SJD candidate at HLS “The Politics of Expertise in Designing the Cable Car to Jerusalem’s Old City”
An ambitious plan to build a cable car to the Old City in Jerusalem is now underway. Departing from the western commercial area of the city, it is designed to commute thousands of visitors every hour to Jewish Heritage Sites including the Western Wall. The ideological, political and distributional struggles surrounding the project are numerous. […]
Litigating Palestinian Rights in the Israeli Supreme Court: Legitimation or Resistance? (co-sponsored with the Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School) Rabea Eghbariah, SJD candidate at HLS
The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law presents: Protecting the Interests of Capital Market Investors in a Multicultural Society by Nitzan Wulkan
Israel’s low-interest environment has created an incentive for “alternative investments” in online trading platforms and while these platforms raised hundreds of millions of dollars from Israeli investors in the last decade, they did so based on false promises of imaginary interest rates. The initial lack of regulatory oversight in the field created fertile ground for […]
Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law: A New Perspective on Israel’s Early Constitutional Debate with Aviram Shahal
An examination of how demographic concerns about the political power of the Arab minority population impacted Israel’s decision not to adopt a constitution in the early years of statehood.
The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law presents: The Jewish Vow Between Story and Law, Bible and Mishnah with Miryam Segal,2022-2023 Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law at Harvard Law Schoo
The vow, or neder, is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, found in poetry and wisdom literature, stories and laws. Even sometime-readers of the Bible will have encountered it in the stories of Jacob, Hannah, and Jepthah; in Psalms and Proverbs, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The third century Mishnah devotes an entire tractate to it and stories […]
Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law presents: Resurrecting Jewish Endowments: A Journey into History via the Rabbinical Courts with Rachel Shakargy
The Rabbinical Jewish endowments are properties dedicated to specific public causes by individuals over the past 250 years. Among these causes are hospitals, yeshivas, synagogues, and many welfare and social causes. With the skyrocketing property value increase, the assets are now worth many billions of dollars. In 2018 I was the first female who entered […]
The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on jewish and Israeli Law presents: Was the Revival of Meir Kahane through Itamar Ben Gvir Inevitable?: Thoughts on Zionism Today with Shaul Magid
Historical inevitability is not a popular notion among scholars. Yet there is little debate that the rise of Israeli parliamentarian Itamar Ben Gvir and his far-right party has brought Meir Kahane, maligned Jewish militant and ousted Knesset member, back into focus. Is this an aberration or can we say it was predictable? How are Kahane […]