Tag Archives: New Family Organization
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 MoreSmoking 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 [...]
Read MoreOn Oranges and Water Glasses: Two News Additions to the Seder Plate
The last few parashot readings included instructions on what to do with community members suffering from various skin ailments. These strange diseases are often interpreted as representing the disease of gossip and slander (lashon ha ra), considered a serious sin in Judaism because, like gathering feathers dispersed in the wind, the damage caused by a [...]
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 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 [...]
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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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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