Category Archives: Legislative and Policy Advocacy

Where is the protest?

Family justice would start with passing a Basic Law that would recognize different types of families and parenting constellations, and would establish genuine civil marriage. By Irit Rosenblum | Dec.28, 2012 | The cry reverberates throughout the land. People march to Knesset. A Facebook campaign is launched. People take to the streets. Politicians kiss babies, […]

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In my own write: A perfect love

From the Jerusalem Post By JUDY MONTAGU June 28, 2011 In Israel, 300,000 individuals are suffering through grandparents being cut off from their grandchildren. Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild – Welsh proverb ‘Savta – when are you coming again?” I heard my neighbor’s little girl call to her grandmother from […]

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Head to Head / Isn’t New York’s take on same-sex marriage a major step?

An interview with family rights activist Irit Rosenblum. By Tomer Zarchin Attorney Irit Rosenblum, the founder and chairperson of the New Family Organization for Advancement of Family Rights, each year handles hundreds of cases involving homosexual and lesbian couples that are heard primarily in the family affairs courts. These involve requests by same-sex couples to […]

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Nearly Half the Families in Israel Are Outside of the Consensus

“Nearly half the families in Israel are outside of the consensus”, says Advocate Irit Rosenblum, Founder and Executive Director of New Family. “The state mistreats 800,000 families. Women who have civil wedding in Cyprus, for example, are not entitled to alimony.” “I began to formulate the idea of ​​ New Family in the middle of […]

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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: […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Impose a ‘violence tax’ on family violence offenders / By IRIT ROSENBLUM

Family batterers need to recognize that there is a painful financial price for their abuse. A wave of horrific incidents of violence in the family washed over Israel in the last week. On November 8, we awoke to the stabbing by her husband of a woman who hovered between life and death before succumbing to […]

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Legal ruling will allow gay men to adopt partner’s child

By RUTH EGLASH “This is a big step for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Israel,” commented lawyer Irit Rosenblum. A breakthrough legal ruling in the Jerusalem Family Court on Thursday will pave the way for homosexuals to officially adopt their partner’s or spouse’s child, the Tel Aviv-based New Family organization told The […]

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New Family fills a crucial gap in the theory and practice of law and human rights

New Family fills a crucial gap in the theory and practice of law and human rights, by working for equal family rights for all residents of Israel, including the rights to marry, divorce, have children, register spouses and children, and conduct family life regardless of religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, or status. Since 1998, New […]

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