Research Outputs
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2026
Oreg, A., Shoval-Zuckerman, Y., Levin, I., & Zafran, N. (2026). Perceptions and attitudes of midwives toward breast milk expression following perinatal loss. International Breastfeeding Journal, 21(1), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-026-00811-2
Harari, R., Oreg, A., & Herbst-Debby, A. (2026). Human milk for cancer care: Science-in-extension and gendered digital labor. Social Science and Medicine, 403, Article 119444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119444
Frankenburg, R., & Oreg, A. (2026). “As long as they remember me, I am alive”: Commemoration and memory through stickers. Death Studies, 50(4), 509-527. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2435929
Kariv, M. H., & Oreg, A. (2026). Spousal Kidney Donations in Israel: Religious and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Journal of Religion and Health, 65(1), 651-675. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-025-02497-y
Dasa, S., & Oreg, A. (2026). Living Kidney Donation in Israel: The Lived Experiences of Donors’ Partners in Faith-Based Communities. Journal of Religion and Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-026-02579-5
לוין, ע., אורג, א., & זפרן, נ. (2026). בין אובדן למתן: עמדות מיילדות כלפי שאיבת חלב אם לאחר לידה שקטה. האחות בישראל, 215, 46-52. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16a5pb12cGqkBaDKo3DwYsjpda7f1pzrI/view
Dasa, S., & Oreg, A. (Accepted/In press). Author Correction: Living Kidney Donation in Israel: The Lived Experiences of Donors’ Partners in Faith-Based Communities (Journal of Religion and Health, (2026), 10.1007/s10943-026-02579-5). Journal of Religion and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-026-02686-3
Oreg, A., Erel-Brodsky, H., & Taubman–Ben-Ari, O. (2026). Embodied memories - exploring memorial tattoos through the lens of terror management theory. Death Studies, 50(1), 89-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2414275
Erel-Brodsky, H., Oreg, A., & Taubman-Ben-Ari, O. (2026). Spraying the horror: Street art as social response to collective trauma. Death Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2026.2688163
Oreg, A., Ben-Shlomo, S., & Dagan, A. (2026). Archaeology and Secondary Trauma Stress Recovery for Social Workers in Shelters for Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence. Violence Against Women. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251409174
Mahat-Shamir, M., Pitcho, S., Oreg, A., & Leichtentritt, R. D. (2026). A new heterotopia: Reconfiguring presence and absence between life and death in an era of liquid modernity. Death Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2026.2638322
Frankenburg, R., Rashi, T., & Oreg, A. (Accepted/In press). Agenda-setting theory, commemoration, and stickers. Media, War and Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352261465212
2025
Mahat-Shamir, M., Oreg, A., & Zychlinski, E. (2025). Resistance battle fatigue in the face of ongoing protests in Israel. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 56, Article 101418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101418
Oreg, A., & Taubman–Ben-Ari, O. (2025). Spontaneous war weddings as a reaction to a national trauma: A terror management theory perspective. Death Studies, 49(9), 1149-1163. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2386063
Ben-Shlomo, S., Oreg, A., & Cohen, N. (2025). Families of organ donors between Jews and Arabs in Israel during a military operation: Constructing meaning through participation in an epistemic Community - Media analysis of two cases. Death Studies, 49(5), 566-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2341881
פרנקנבורג, ר., & אורג, א. (2025). בין אבל אישי וציבורי: תופעת ההנצחה באמצעות סטיקרים במלחמת חרבות ברזל. חברה ורווחה: רבעון לעבודה סוציאלית, מ"ה(4), 482-501. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/molsa-45-4-frackenburg/he/SocialAndWelfareMagazine_Magazine-45-4_45-4-FRANKENBURG.pdf
Oreg, A., & Frankenburg, R. (Accepted/In press). "We are all Hersh": Grief, solidarity, and identity in a football fan community. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902251368388
Oreg, A. (2025). Milky bonds: exploring solidarity in human milk banking. Social Theory and Health, 23(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-025-00226-9
Cohen, N., & Oreg, A. (2025). “I am a guest man in a world of women”: The lived experiences of gay fathers utilizing human milk donations for their babies. Social Science and Medicine, 365, Article 117567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117567
2024
Oreg, A., & Ben Shlomo, S. (2024). Performances of Hope and Despair: A Case Study of Organ Donation Between a Palestinian and Israeli Jew Amidst War. Qualitative Health Research, 34(13), 1315-1325. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323241238919
Oreg, A., Avlagon, E., & Gitlitz, T. (2024). Being a Surrogate Partner: The Challenges of Fragile Boundaries. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 53(4), 1403-1414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02821-9
גרינשפן, א., אלמוג-בר, מ., שמיד, ה., & אורג, א. (2024). בין משבר ארגוני למשבר בריאותי: מיזוג ארגונים ללא כוונת רווח כאסטרטגיית התמודדות עם משבר. ביטחון סוציאלי, 122, 135-165. https://www.btl.gov.il/Publications/Social_Security/bitachon_122/Documents/50-%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%9F.pdf
Almog-Bar, M., Greenspan, I., Schmid, H., & Oreg, A. (2024). The Three P’s in Nonprofit Human Service Mergers: Strategic Response to Coping with a Crisis. Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership and Governance, 48(3), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2024.2335985
Oreg, A., & Taubman – Ben-Ari, O. (2024). Understanding posthumous sperm retrieval during war through a terror management theory perspective. Social Science and Medicine, 349, Article 116870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116870
2023
Oreg, A., & Negev, M. (2023). Peer-to-Peer Human Milk-Sharing Among Israeli Milk Donors: A Mixed-Methods Study in the Land of Milk and Honey. Journal of Human Lactation, 39(4), 688-700. https://doi.org/10.1177/08903344231196113
Oreg, A., & Babis, D. (2023). Digital Ethnography in Third Sector Research. Voluntas, 34(1), 12-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-021-00397-9
Timor-Shelvin, S., Oreg, A., & Stern Perez, A. (2023). 'Whose Milk Was It, Really? ... It Was a Gift, a Savior, a Healer, and a Connector': Reflections on a Collaborative Autoethnography of Breastmilk Donation after Stillbirth. British Journal of Social Work, 53(3), 1561-1569. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad025
Oreg, A. (2023). Written on milk: Exploring messages written on donated human-milk bags. Medical Humanities, 49(4), 688-699. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012608
Oreg, A., Perez, A. S., & Timor-Shlevin, S. (2023). “So, whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement. Death Studies, 47(8), 938-947. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2022.2143936
2022
Shlomo, S. B., & Oreg, A. (2022). Ultra-Orthodox Lesbian Women in Israel: Alternative Family Structures as a Bridge between Religious and Sexual Identities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(13), Article 7575. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137575
Oreg, A., & Appe, S. (2022). Why Is Human Milk Donation Absent From the Literature on Philanthropic Giving? The Invisible Female Donor and Her Invisible Gift. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 51(4), 916-927. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640211013907
2021
Appe, S., & Oreg, A. (2021). Does effective altruism drive private cross-border aid? A qualitative study of American donors to grassroots INGOs. Third World Quarterly, 42(12), 2841-2862. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2021.1969910
Oreg, A., Greenspan, I., & Berger, I. E. (2021). When the gift is halfhearted: A socio-cultural study of ambivalence in a charity sport event. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 56(8), 1224-1242. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690220968107
אורג, א., אלמוג-בר, מ., גרינשפן, א., כץ, א., & שמיד, ה. (2021). מיזוגים בחברה האזרחית בישראל. (סדרת מאמרים; Vol. חוברת 26). האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, המכון לחקר החברה האזרחית והפילנתרופיה בישראל.
2020
Appe, S., & Oreg, A. (2020). Philanthropic Entrepreneurs Who Give Overseas: An Exploratory Study of International Giving Through Grassroots Organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 49(3), 502-522. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764019878785
Oreg, A. (2020). The grief ritual of extracting and donating human milk after perinatal loss. Social Science and Medicine, 265, Article 113312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113312
Appe, S., & Oreg, A. (2020). Lost and Found in Upstate New York: Exploring the Motivations of “Lost Boys” Refugees as Founders of International Nonprofit Organizations. Administration and Society, 52(8), 1209-1238. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399719890311
Oreg, A., & Appe, S. (2020). “Ain't No Hood Like Motherhood”: The Complexity of Human Milk Donor Identity. Social Science Quarterly, 101(2), 439-458. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12751
2019
Oreg, A. (2019). Milk donation after losing one's baby: Adopting a donor identity as a means of coping with loss. Social Science and Medicine, 238, Article 112519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112519