Tag Archives: Israel
Don’t Wed in Cyprus
Don’t wed in Cyprus! New Family’s Common-Law Marriage ID Cards confer couples who can’t or choose not to marry religiously status and rights equal to officially married couples by recognizing them as common-law spouses in Israel’s institutions. Common-Law Marriage ID’s protect couples’ integrity by circumventing religious jurisdiction, avoiding capitulation to the outrageous demands of the [...]
Read MoreFamily 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 [...]
Read MoreWeddings on the Front Line
Muslims and Jews joined in love face ancient hatreds TAMI ZER and SJIFRA HERSCHBERG | Oct 27, 2003 THE FOUR AMERICANS were on an innocent mission in the Gaza Strip to interview candidates for Fulbright scholarships to U.S. universities when a bomb exploded under their vehicle, killing three and injuring one. It was the second [...]
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 MoreFinancial Agreement ? Let’s sign with love
Mr. Troll and Ms. Troll fell in love. Will you move in with me? Shall we sign a financial agreement? We agree. Let’s sign with love. Sealed with a kiss. This agreement was drawn up and signed lovingly in Tel Aviv between Mr. Troll Israeli and Ms. Troll Canaanite. . For further information, go to [...]
Read MoreEnough 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 [...]
Read MoreLost in Translation
Since marrying into an Israeli family and moving here, I cannot help compare the differences between American Jewry and Israeli Jewry. What is perhaps even more interesting is examining the two different community’s perceptions of one another. Bound by religion, shared history and a complex combination of ethnicity and what can only be referred to [...]
Read MoreWill They/Won’t They Allow Gay Marriage?
It’s still too early to be talking about this in Israel, but not in the United States. Recently the Maryland Senate squeaked through a vote to approve gay marriage in that State, making it (only) the 6th State of the Union to do so. http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/maryland-senate-approves-gay-marriage Even so, there are rumblings from Maryland opponents to equal [...]
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Swimming Against the Current, Creating New Families
{Full disclosure – some names and places have been changed in order to respect privacy.} My friends Eran and Renaldo first met some 15 year ago, and pretty soon became a couple. They moved in together, established their loving family-unit status, and life was good. But there was a problem. Eran, an Israeli living in [...]
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