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Man wants child from dead wife’s embryos / By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

A-G deliberates on widowed would-be dad. The Health Ministry would not comment Tuesday on charges that it has refused to allow a 40- year-old man to use his late wife’s embryos to produce their genetic children using a surrogate mother. The man, N., whose wife died last year, has expressed her wishes that after her […]

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‘Prove that you have a daughter’

Baby Dana was born prematurely, 270 days after her mother’s divorce. An archaic law requires that a baby born less than 300 days after a divorce be registered as the child of the mother’s former husband. The result: Dana’s biological father is not recognized. The Ministry of the Interior: ‘Our hands our tied’. Dana’s only […]

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Impose a ‘violence tax’ on family violence offenders / By IRIT ROSENBLUM

Family batterers need to recognize that there is a painful financial price for their abuse. A wave of horrific incidents of violence in the family washed over Israel in the last week. On November 8, we awoke to the stabbing by her husband of a woman who hovered between life and death before succumbing to […]

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Exposing the ‘Partnership Covenant for Religionless’

Not only does this law not provide an alternative to marriage in the rabbinic establishment, it fortifies religious coercion and the Orthodox monopoly over family life. If you support the “Partnership Covenant” because you believe it is liberal or enlightened, think again. Read the final version of the law confirmed last week and ponder the […]

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"A big step for the GLBT community in Israel in receiving recognition of the legitimate family cell." Rosenblum

Legal precedent: a man can adopt the child of his spouse

By: Gilad Grossman, Walla! News Until now, the law did not allow homosexuals to adopt the children of their partners, because the child has two official parents.  Thursday, the court ruled that a man could adopt the biological son of his partner. Family Court in Jerusalem ruled Thursday for the first time that a man […]

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Legal ruling will allow gay men to adopt partner’s child

By RUTH EGLASH “This is a big step for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Israel,” commented lawyer Irit Rosenblum. A breakthrough legal ruling in the Jerusalem Family Court on Thursday will pave the way for homosexuals to officially adopt their partner’s or spouse’s child, the Tel Aviv-based New Family organization told The […]

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New Family fills a crucial gap in the theory and practice of law and human rights

New Family fills a crucial gap in the theory and practice of law and human rights, by working for equal family rights for all residents of Israel, including the rights to marry, divorce, have children, register spouses and children, and conduct family life regardless of religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, or status. Since 1998, New […]

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