Tag Archives: Jerusalem Post
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 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 […]
להמשך קריאה Our Social Time Bomb
We need a revolution that will lift the country from the cycle of poverty and bring us into the family of OECD nations. In January 2010, Israel was unanimously invited to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). With the prestige of being inaugurated into the exclusive financial organization, its induction allowed its […]
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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 […]
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