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Fatherhood After Death

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World’s First Biological Will to Be Executed

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Progressive Rabbis of Australia, Asia and New Zealand Call for Marriage Equality.

New Family commends the Moetzah, the Rabbinic Council of Progressive Rabbis of Australia, Asia and New Zealand, for their support of same-sex marriage equality. See their press statement here: Rabbis’ Marriage Equality statement 19 May 2011

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Memorial Day 2011: 54% of the Public Would Consider Freezing Sperm or Ova for Posthumous Use

54 percent of the Jewish public in Israel would positively consider freezing sperm or eggs for posthumous use, if they were in a life-threatening situation, according to a survey conducted for New Family Organization ahead of Memorial Day for Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism. The survey, conducted by Geocartography Institute among a representative […]

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Family Court Approved World’s First Biological Will

Advocate Irit Rosenblum, founder of the world’s first and only Biological Will Center: ‘This is another milestone in the struggle for human dignity.’ Legal Precedent for New Family Organization: Family Court Approved the Biological Will of Baruch Posniansky, (Z”L) which requested that the sperm he froze and stored at the sperm bank be used to […]

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Made in Heaven-Tablet Magazine

By Michelle Goldberg Israel has enthusiastically embraced advanced reproductive technologies. Now a court is considering whether parents have the right to use their dead son’s frozen sperm to create posthumous grandchildren. Last fall, 27-year-old Ohad Ben-Yaakov was injured in an accident at his part-time job, and he died after two weeks in a coma. Ben-Yaakov […]

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Enough is Enough: Put Family First

The world is going crazy around us. You could make varying arguments for when it started going crazy, but that’s neither interesting, productive, or important – the fact remains that the world has taken a bunch of crazy pills and we get to see its reactions to these crazy pills. With governments falling left and […]

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In Wisdom and Beauty

בְּחָכְמָה, יִבָּנֶה בָּיִת;    וּבִתְבוּנָה, יִתְכּוֹנָן. וּבְדַעַת, חֲדָרִים יִמָּלְאוּ–    כָּל-הוֹן יָקָר וְנָעִים. Through wisdom is a house built, and through understanding it is established, and with knowledge the rooms are filled with precious and pleasant riches. (Proverbs 24:3-4) When I went to see my aunt and uncle for Thanksgiving dinner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last […]

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Some Families Don’t Count

Some families don’t count. New Family founder and executive director Irit Rosenblum said in response to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics that some families won’t be included in those statistics. She says, ‘Close to 200,000 families in Israel will not find themselves in the statistics gathered by the Central Bureau of Statistics […]

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President Shimon Peres yesterday joined the campaign to allow a gay father to bring his infant twin sons

May 20, 2010 President Shimon Peres yesterday joined the campaign to allow a gay father to bring his infant twin sons, who were born to a surrogate mother in India, to Israel. Dan Goldberg has been stranded with the twins in a Mumbai hotel for two months, due to the Interior Ministry’s refusal to administer […]

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