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Exposing the ‘Partnership Covenant for Religionless’ – IRIT ROSENBLUM 22/11/2010
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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Man wants child from dead wifes embryos – Jerusalem Post 30.6.10
Advocate Irit Rosenblum: The Ministry of Health is Preventing a Widower from Bringing His Children to the World. The Ministry of Health will not allow a 40-year old widower to actualize his right to parenthood and to execute his deceased wife’s will to bring their children to the world. New Family organization, which is handling [...]
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Gay father of surrogates stuck in India – RUTH EGLASH 21.5.2010 Jerusalem post
A homosexual father of twins born to a surrogate mother in India two months ago has appealed to President Shimon Peres for help in enabling him and the babies to enter Israel after being initially turned down by the Jerusalem Family Court. May 21, 2010 Friday Gay father of surrogates stuck in India By RUTH [...]
להמשך קריאה Biological Will
A ‘biological will’ is an innovative legal document for a man that wants to give instructions on what should happen with his semen in the event of his death. He might have had a sample of his sperm frozen, preserved and deposited in advance, or he might request that it should be taken from him [...]
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Parenthood
Parenthood bestows us with rights and duties that we did not have before. According to the law, a parent is the natural guardian of his or her children and therefore has the right and the duty to raise them, provide them with education, fulfill their physical and emotional needs and guard their assets and development. [...]
להמשך קריאה Couple Agreements
Why should couples sign pre-nuptials, financial agreements or shared life agreements? Couples often hesitate to establish the principles of their relationship in a contract or to set their financial obligations to each other in writing. In today’s world, we hardly do a single step without documenting it, especially when it comes to finances. Even in [...]
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Common Law Marriage
What is Common Law Marriage? A common law couple consists of two partners that live together in a joint household under a common roof creating a family unit without having conducted any officially recognized marriage ceremony to make them husband and wife. In Israel, where no option for a civil wedding exists, common law marriage [...]
להמשך קריאה Out of consensus Carl Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 23, 2009
In recent decades, not only social scientists but lawyers, courts and national governments have had to broaden the definition of "family." New definitions are being crafted to include single parent families, as well as families resulting from same-sex unions, common-law marriages, couples' agreements, adoption, surrogacy and artificial insemination. In this country, lawyers and human rights [...]
להמשך קריאה The Proud Family Revolution, led by New Family, Continues / Lesbian Widow to Receive Government Pension
In another precedent-setting achievement for the rights of same-sex couples led by NIF grantee New Family, an Israeli woman has been granted a widow’s pension by the government’s National Insurance Institute following the death of her lesbian partner. Ella Bar-Ilan, 64, who will receive the pension following the death of her partner Roberta Saltonick, was [...]
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Marriage and Civil Marriage
Marriage and Civil Marriage The only official marriage ceremonies that can be conducted in Israel and subsequently lead to the registration of the couple as married in the population registry are religious ceremonies according to the religion of the couple to be married. However, there are other options for men and women that do not [...]
להמשך קריאה Legal Advice and Assistance
Who turns to New Family? New Family gives legal advice and assistance to all kinds of families and couples: To married couples, common law couples, couples that had a civil wedding, couples in their second or third marriage, husbands and wives of different religions, to Israelis that are not Jewish and to foreign workers, to [...]
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הגרדיאן: זוג ישראלי מבקש להשתמש בזרע של בנם המת
עיתון הגרדיאן הבריטי מפרסם כתבה המציגה את סיפורו של אוהד בן יעקב ז"ל אשר הוריו תרמו את איבריו וכעת דורשים לעשות שימוש בזרעו כדי להביא ילד לעולם. משפחת בן יעקב פנתה לארגון משפחה חדשה על מנת שיסייע להם למאבקם. בדרישה שהפנתה עו"ד אירית רוזנבלום, העומדת בראש ארגון "משפחה חדשה", ליועץ המשפטי לממשלה יהודה וינשטיין, היא [...]
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