Category Archives: Parents and Children
Global Biological Will™ Precedent: Baby Born From Frozen Embryos After Mothers Death
In the first decision of its kind, The Ministry of Health in July 2010 awarded a 40-year old widower custody of the frozen embryos that he and his wife Keren created in fertility treatments before her unexpected death. Prior to the women’s death, she signed legal documents expressing her desire for their embryos to be […]
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Memorial Day 2011: 54% of the Public Would Consider Freezing Sperm or Ova for Posthumous Use
54 percent of the Jewish public in Israel would positively consider freezing sperm or eggs for posthumous use, if they were in a life-threatening situation, according to a survey conducted for New Family Organization ahead of Memorial Day for Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism. The survey, conducted by Geocartography Institute among a representative […]
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 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 Enough is Enough: Put Family First
The world is going crazy around us. You could make varying arguments for when it started going crazy, but that’s neither interesting, productive, or important – the fact remains that the world has taken a bunch of crazy pills and we get to see its reactions to these crazy pills. With governments falling left and […]
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 […]
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First Israeli Baby Born From Mother’s Frozen Embryos
New Family’s Biological Will Initiative enabled the birth of the first Israeli to be born from his deceased mothers frozen embryos and carried by a surrogate mother. The family celebrated the baby’s Brit Milah (ritual circumcision) in New York on Monday, when he was given the name his parents chose for him. “I’m happy that […]
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