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Conference Abstracts & Short Biographies Mishpat Ivri: Past, Present and Future 100 Year Anniversary of the Establishment of the “Mishpat Ivri Society” in Moscow Jewish Law Association 20th International Conference Moscow State University, Law School, Moscow 23 - 26 July 2018 Conference Abstracts & Short Biographies 1 Table of Contents Konstantin Andreev ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Daphne Barak-Erez ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Michael Baris ...................................................................................................................................................... 6 Hila Ben-Eliyahu ................................................................................................................................................. 7 Hanina Ben Menahem ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Itzhak Brand ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 Yehuda Brandes ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Benjamin Brown ............................................................................................................................................... 12 Iris Brown ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Michael J. Broyde ............................................................................................................................................. 15 Levi Cooper ...................................................................................................................................................... 17 Jordanna Cope-Yossef ...................................................................................................................................... 18 Gayane Davidyan ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Olga A. Dyuzheva ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Arye Edrei ......................................................................................................................................................... 20 David J. Fine ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Shlomo E. Gliksberg ......................................................................................................................................... 22 Yaacov Habba ................................................................................................................................................... 24 Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer ............................................................................................................................ 25 Evgeniya Kalinina & Vera Romanovskaya ........................................................................................................ 28 Anton Mordechai Kanevskiy ............................................................................................................................ 30 Malka Katz ........................................................................................................................................................ 31 Menachem Katz ............................................................................................................................................... 32 Nir Kedar .......................................................................................................................................................... 35 Menachem (Mario) Klein ................................................................................................................................. 37 Ron S. Kleinman ............................................................................................................................................... 40 Gideon Libson .................................................................................................................................................. 42 Shahar Lifshitz .................................................................................................................................................. 43 Assaf Likhovski ................................................................................................................................................. 45 Itay Lipschutz ................................................................................................................................................... 46 Yair Lorberbaum .............................................................................................................................................. 48 Leib Moscovitz ................................................................................................................................................. 49 2 Denis Primakov ................................................................................................................................................ 51 Amihai Radzyner .............................................................................................................................................. 53 Avinoam Rosenak ............................................................................................................................................. 54 Mordecai Sabato .............................................................................................................................................. 56 Haim Shapira .................................................................................................................................................... 57 Yaacov Shapira ................................................................................................................................................. 58 Benjamin Shmueli ............................................................................................................................................ 60 Yuval Sinai ........................................................................................................................................................ 62 Ari Marcelo Solon ............................................................................................................................................. 63 Zvi Stampfer ..................................................................................................................................................... 64 Suzanne Stone .................................................................................................................................................. 65 Alim Ulbashev .................................................................................................................................................. 66 Lilac Torgeman ................................................................................................................................................. 67 Yaron Unger ..................................................................................................................................................... 68 Stephan Wendehorst ....................................................................................................................................... 70 Steven Wilf ....................................................................................................................................................... 71 Shai Wozner ..................................................................................................................................................... 72 Michael Wygoda .............................................................................................................................................. 74 Motti Zalkin ...................................................................................................................................................... 75 3 Konstantin Andreev Limitations on Jewish Religious Practices in Modern Russia Jurisprudence In the summer of the year of 2016 in the Russian Parliament the so-called «Yarovaya Law» was adopted due to which in the Profile Law on Religion the definition of missionary activity emerged. Law enforcement practice has taken the path in which any religious activity started to be regarded as missionary activity. Any person doing «something religious» in the presence of a third party commits missionary activity, according to the opinion of a law enforcement agent, and, therefore, if not being authorized for this activity, is regarded as a law violator. As it is known, Judaism is not considered as a missionary religion. However, according to the Yarovaya Law it becomes as such, because any religious activity, committed in the presence of either of a non-observant Jew or not even a Jew can be regarded as missionary activity. On the one hand, Judaism is recognized in Russia as a traditional
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