Author Archives: New Family
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: […]
להמשך קריאה The 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 […]
להמשך קריאה Family 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 […]
להמשך קריאה Weddings 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 […]
להמשך קריאה Gay Partnership / Same-Sex Couples
New Family is the recognized authority on GLBT family rights in Israel and provides expertise on living same-sex family life in Israel in dignity that no other entity can. Lesbians, gays and transgender benefit from New Family’s expertise in accessing new reproductive, parenting and family rights made available to them by New Family’s strategic litigation […]
להמשך קריאה Made in Heaven-Tablet Magazine
By Michelle Goldberg Israel has enthusiastically embraced advanced reproductive technologies. Now a court is considering whether parents have the right to use their dead son’s frozen sperm to create posthumous grandchildren. Last fall, 27-year-old Ohad Ben-Yaakov was injured in an accident at his part-time job, and he died after two weeks in a coma. Ben-Yaakov […]
להמשך קריאה Financial 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 […]
להמשך קריאה Advocate 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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Event: Discussion on The Right to Establish a Family
On Sunday, May 1, at 11 am, New Family Organization will hold a discussion on the right to establish a family in Israel. Students, researchers, journalists, bloggers and other interested parties in the fields of gender, law, social work, psychology and communications are invited to the discussion. The discussion will be led by Advocate Irit […]
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