Category Archives: Media
FROM VICKY (KNAFO) TO DAPHNE (LEEF) / By Irit Rosenblum, Advocate
The housing protest, which by now has been on public agenda for several weeks, reminds those, who forgot – that Bibi is the same Bibi and even worse. A short reminder – if we go back to 2003, when Bibi wanted to harm one of the most vulnerable sectors of Israeli society – single moms. [...]
Read MoreWoman’s dream to have child fulfilled after death Thanks to frozen embryos, surrogate mother / David Regev, Israel news
Woman’s dream to have child fulfilled after death – Thanks to frozen embryos, surrogate – Nissim Ayish makes late wife’s dream to become mother come true two years after she dies from deadly tumor
Read MoreNearly Half the Families in Israel Are Outside of the Consensus
“Nearly half the families in Israel are outside of the consensus”, says Advocate Irit Rosenblum, Founder and Executive Director of New Family. “The state mistreats 800,000 families. Women who have civil wedding in Cyprus, for example, are not entitled to alimony.” “I began to formulate the idea of New Family in the middle of [...]
Read MoreTrying to find the truth
By Jonathan Danilowitz I’ve just watched the World View interview with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Like him or not, he is an excellent speaker, and has the facts and figures at his fingertips. He gave a good performance, breaking down many of the anti-Israel stereotypes that fly around simply because people don’t know better. [...]
Read MoreAdvocate Irit Rosenblum on new egg donation regulation, ‘This is a great step for women in their race against the biological clock.’
New Family Organization, the leading family rights advocate in Israel, welcomes the Health Ministry’s new regulation permitting Israeli hospitals to freeze ova of women seeking to delay pregnancy. ‘This happy news constitutes a breakthrough in the state’s approach to the status of woman in Israel’, says Advocate Irit Rosenblum, founder and executive director of New Family Organization. ‘The new [...]
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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 [...]
Read MoreOur 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 [...]
Read MoreWater Under the Bridge
It’s been about 15 years since I initiated what eventually became one of Israel’s landmark court decisions: I sued my employer to recognize my partner – also a man – as my common-law spouse. We wanted the same spousal benefits all my workmates were getting – nothing more, but nothing less. Six years on and [...]
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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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Respect 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 [...]
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