Category Archives: English
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 Lost in Translation
Since marrying into an Israeli family and moving here, I cannot help compare the differences between American Jewry and Israeli Jewry. What is perhaps even more interesting is examining the two different community’s perceptions of one another. Bound by religion, shared history and a complex combination of ethnicity and what can only be referred to […]
להמשך קריאה In Wisdom and Beauty
בְּחָכְמָה, יִבָּנֶה בָּיִת; וּבִתְבוּנָה, יִתְכּוֹנָן. וּבְדַעַת, חֲדָרִים יִמָּלְאוּ– כָּל-הוֹן יָקָר וְנָעִים. Through wisdom is a house built, and through understanding it is established, and with knowledge the rooms are filled with precious and pleasant riches. (Proverbs 24:3-4) When I went to see my aunt and uncle for Thanksgiving dinner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last […]
להמשך קריאה (in)validity
I had an exceedingly easy aliyah experience. With the right blood and the right surnames, I became a citizen of Israel, with the same rights as any Israeli Jew, in less than a year. Ironically, my husband’s paperwork was more of a headache than mine; a “katin hozer” (returning minor) and Israeli citizen by birth, […]
להמשך קריאה Dan Goldberg is set to return home to Jerusalem in the coming days with his newborn twins Itai and Liron
Dan Goldberg is set to return home to Jerusalem in the coming days with his newborn twins Itai and Liron. Goldberg, a gay man, has been fighting a legal battle with Israel’s authorities since the babies were born two months ago. Goldberg is represented by NIF grantee New Family: Organization for Family Rights. Goldberg, 45 […]
להמשך קריאה Israeli campaigner, career booster and filmaker celebrated at Ogunte awards / by Claudia Cahalane
Jobeda Ali of Fair Knowledge won the Social Business Leader 2010 award at last night’s Ogunte women’s social leadership awards, in conjunction with the RSA. Ali is pictured with speaker Dr Rachel Armstrong. A woman who campaigns for family rights in Israel, the founder of a company which increases the career prospects of women in […]
להמשך קריאה Gay father of surrogates stuck in India / By RUTH EGLASH
Dan Goldberg appeals to Peres for help bring twins to Israel. 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. Jerusalem resident […]
להמשך קריאה 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 the case, asks to respect the widower’s right to parenthood and to carry out his deceased wife’s will. […]
להמשך קריאה ISRAEL, a paradise for gay families / by NATHALIE HAMOU in Israel
The Israeli gay community is one the most dynamic in the world. It’s peculiarity: many couples do not conceive leading a life without having children. Every Friday, the Center for gays and lesbians in Tel-Aviv, nestled on the edge of a public garden, is starting to appear like a baby nursery. Not without reason. According […]
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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 […]
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