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Who does the ‘Partnership Covenant Law’ help, if anyone?
The law may serve at best 30,000 people without a recognized religion, but does not provide a response to more than 300,000 people whose Jewish status is in doubt. The proof lies in the fact that law after the law went into effect, there has been only one application for a Partnership Covenant union! By: [...]
Read MoreThe First Couple Registered for ‘Partnership Covenant’
Advocate Irit Rosenblum: ‘A Feeble Law’ Six months after the approval of the law, Svetlana and Gabi became the first ‘religion-less’ couple in Israel to gain legal recognition for their union. They canceled their plans to get married in Prague, but New Family Organization notes: “Israel is still the only democracy without civil marriage” April [...]
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Smoking and the Family
They say that the really crazed anti-smoking activists are the former smokers. Full disclosure: I quit smoking about 32 years ago. It seems that the longer I’m nicotine free, the more rabid I become when people smoke next to me. I began smoking as a teenager, when cigarette advertising still told us how “cool” and [...]
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