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IDF Solider to Become Father by Biological Will™ 11 Years After Death
IDF Solider to Become Father by Biological Will™ 11 Years After Death
להמשך קריאה People-Powered Social Revolution in Israel Promotes Rights of Same-Sex Families
By Irit Rosenblum Legislators react. They don’t enact. A politician who declares a revolution is actually just announcing the phenomenon that he seeks to legislate can no longer be ignored. The real changes are made by people, by society, by individual choices and actions, not by political statements or election propaganda. The legislator simply updates […]
להמשך קריאה Israeli Attorney Suggests Common-Law Marriage As an Act of Civil Disobedience
In response to the Israeli Rabbinate’s monopoly on marriage in Israel, the author suggests an act of civil disobedience. Common-law marriage is an act of protest against a corrupt system of religious marriage and divorce in Israel. Israel’s system of marriage and divorce constitutes a commercial industry that sustains itself through exclusion, discrimination and commercialization […]
להמשך קריאה AG approves parents’ use of dead son’s sperm
Haifa family court debates parents’ request to impregnate woman with dead son’s sperm, even though two never met. Weinstein has no objection, contrary to former office holder Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein does not object to two parents’ request to use their dead son’s sperm to impregnate a woman, a complete stranger to him while he […]
להמשך קריאה The real revolution is for common-law partnership
By IRIT ROSENBLUM Common-law marriage is the expression of autonomy in family relations. It is a declaration of partnership. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni declared a civil revolution with the opening of the Knesset’s winter session. In Israel of 2013, the right to civil marriage is a political quagmire, and issues that the western world forgot […]
להמשך קריאה How did the secular majority became a persecuted minority?
By IRIT ROSENBLUM A woman refused a divorce cannot break free from the shackles of marriage and rebuild her life. The battle for leadership of the Chief Rabbinate has heated up recently. This is the first time the race for chief rabbi has gotten so much media exposure. Why should the secular public care about […]
להמשך קריאה Respect the dead by creating new life
Published on Haaretz, by Irit Rosenblum In 2001, I proposed the formation of a sperm bank for IDF soldiers, which would offer soldiers the chance to store sperm for use the event of their death or loss of reproductive ability. My defining experience was meeting a handsome, grief-stricken young man. Shortly after enlistment into the […]
להמשך קריאה FROM VICKY (KNAFO) TO DAPHNE (LEEF) / By Irit Rosenblum, Advocate
The housing protest, which by now has been on public agenda for several weeks, reminds those, who forgot – that Bibi is the same Bibi and even worse. A short reminder – if we go back to 2003, when Bibi wanted to harm one of the most vulnerable sectors of Israeli society – single moms. […]
להמשך קריאה Woman’s dream to have child fulfilled after death Thanks to frozen embryos, surrogate mother / David Regev, Israel news
Woman’s dream to have child fulfilled after death – Thanks to frozen embryos, surrogate – Nissim Ayish makes late wife’s dream to become mother come true two years after she dies from deadly tumor
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Israeli court decides dead man’s sperm can be used after all