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Israeli couple seek right to use dead son’s sperm / By Harriet Sherwood
Ohad Ben-Yaakov’s parents want legal permission to use sperm taken while 28-year-old was in a coma to produce a grandchild The parents of an Israeli killed in a workplace accident five months ago are seeking legal permission to use his frozen sperm to produce a grandchild, even though he was not in a relationship. Ohad […]
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President Shimon Peres yesterday joined the campaign to allow a gay father to bring his infant twin sons
May 20, 2010 President Shimon Peres yesterday joined the campaign to allow a gay father to bring his infant twin sons, who were born to a surrogate mother in India, to Israel. Dan Goldberg has been stranded with the twins in a Mumbai hotel for two months, due to the Interior Ministry’s refusal to administer […]
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Family Matters: Mishpoche Enablers
By: Leora Eren Frucht Yulia and Slav Pozniansky, an Israeli couple in their fifties, enjoy being grandparents to their oldest son’s three children. They crave the chance to be grandparents to the offspring of their younger son, Baruch, as well. But that is more difficult since Baruch is dead. The story does not end there. […]
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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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