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constituted ethnic discrimination. The High Court of
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Committee of the Bar Association, the disciplinary tribunal of the Bar Association and various public commissions. He is director and chairman of the Logistics Committee of the Birthright Program. He is a member of the
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in 1989. In 1991, Hacohen began to teach as an assistant in the law school of the Hebrew
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in an attempt to prevent the appointment of ultra-Orthodox rabbinic court judges and represented womenâs organizations in the arguments regarding the proposed plea bargain in the case of
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sources, proposes approaches for solving the problem of women unable to obtain a divorce. In 2011, his book âParshiyot vâMishpatim.â a collection of some of his articles, including chapters on
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regarding the ethnic discrimination in institutions of secondary education for girls in the ultra-Orthodox sector.
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institutions, when the womanâs conversion was decreed invalid by the rabbinic court 15 years after she converted.
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