Category Archives: Articles and Op-eds
Where is the protest?
Family justice would start with passing a Basic Law that would recognize different types of families and parenting constellations, and would establish genuine civil marriage. By Irit Rosenblum | Dec.28, 2012 | The cry reverberates throughout the land. People march to Knesset. A Facebook campaign is launched. People take to the streets. Politicians kiss babies, [...]
להמשך קריאהThe mikve as a symbol of religious freedom / By IRIT ROSENBLUM
The rational majority in Israel can – and must – work to change the relationship between religion and state. The time for true religious freedom has come. Since Israel has no constitution, and no basic law that defines the relationship between religion and state, exclusive religious jurisdiction over family life in Israel means that the [...]
להמשך קריאהIrit Rosenblum at the Equality Forum 2012
‘We must continue to fight for everyone’s right to form a family until that freedom is enshrined in law.’ – Irit Rosenblum New Family, headed by attorney Irit Rosenblum, was invited by the Israeli Foreign Ministry to participate in the Israeli delegation to 20th annual Equality Forum held this week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. For [...]
להמשך קריאהRespect the dead by creating new life
Published on Haaretz, by Irit Rosenblum In 2001, I proposed the formation of a sperm bank for IDF soldiers, which would offer soldiers the chance to store sperm for use the event of their death or loss of reproductive ability. My defining experience was meeting a handsome, grief-stricken young man. Shortly after enlistment into the [...]
להמשך קריאהIsrael’s ‘black widows’ / Irit Rosenblum – Haaretz
The prevailing view, held by Rabbi Yehudah Hanasi, is that a woman is presumed “fatal” after the death of two husbands.
להמשך קריאהThe geometry of government in Israel / Irit Rosenblum, Advocate
The family is the main edge of Israeli society; once it is broken, society – and the state – will no longer exist.
להמשך קריאהMade 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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Israeli couple seek right to use dead son’s sperm / By Harriet Sherwood
Ohad Ben-Yaakov’s parents want legal permission to use sperm taken while 28-year-old was in a coma to produce a grandchild The parents of an Israeli killed in a workplace accident five months ago are seeking legal permission to use his frozen sperm to produce a grandchild, even though he was not in a relationship. Ohad [...]
להמשך קריאהOur Social Time Bomb
We need a revolution that will lift the country from the cycle of poverty and bring us into the family of OECD nations. In January 2010, Israel was unanimously invited to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). With the prestige of being inaugurated into the exclusive financial organization, its induction allowed its [...]
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The Biological Will™ – a New Paradigm in ART?
Irit Rosenblum, Founder and Executive Director, New Family Organization, Tel Aviv, Israel SUMMARY Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are constantly sophisticating, opening up infinite reproductive possibilities and biological and social parenting constellations. The Biological Will™ is an innovative solution to the legal and moral quandaries presented by new ART. The Biological Will™ is legal testament that [...]
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