Irit Rosenblum

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Aug 22, 2014, 1:01 PM

Gammy Will Not Stop Surrogacy

Surrogacy is not a crime! Surrogacy is the noblest act of creating life. Baby Gammy’s abandonment by an Australian couple is a crime. But the crime is abandonment, not the surrogacy itself. Surrogacy must not be illegalized, but The process of...

Dec 5, 2013, 10:42 PM

Creating new life from the dead by Biological Will™

Last week, the child of the IDF solider Keivan Cohen, shot dead in Gaza in 2002, was born eleven years after his death. This miraculous birth is possible though The Biological Will™. The Biological Will™ is a legal testament that...

Nov 26, 2013, 6:01 AM

Dead 11 years, soon to be a father

Illustrative image of a pregnancy (photo credit: Shutterstock)

After a protracted legal battle, the frozen sperm of a slain IDF soldier is about to bear fruit

May 8, 2012, 12:38 PM

Religious Jurisdiction Over Family Life is a Male Conspiracy

Put Women in the Rabbinate, or Abolish It. Don’t be fooled by tales of divine ordination. Religious jurisdiction over family life is all well-coordinated male conspiracy which should not be tolerated. How can the Orthodox Rabbinate dominate marriage for Jews for...

Mar 27, 2012, 12:50 PM

In the Name of the Father

How many lifetimes of harassment must the daughter of a Jewish father live until the state recognizes the right to be part of the Jewish people and to make aliyah? Family Court Refuses to Grant the Request of a Brother...

Mar 20, 2012, 10:22 AM

Two Mothers, One Pregnancy

How New Family Organization Paved the Way for Court Recognition of Two Biological Mothers The historic March 6 verdict to recognize two biological mothers for a single child is a milestone in a process I started over a decade ago....

Feb 23, 2012, 7:43 AM

Call Exclusion of Women A Hate Crime

It was about 340 B.C when Greek philosopher Aristotle made an astute observation. Governments are inherently unstable. They rise and fall cyclically, and each form of positive government deteriorates to its negative congruent. Monarchy, or the rule of one,...

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About Me

Irit Rosenblum identified a critical gap in law and human rights-the family. She broke new ground by pioneering the development of family human rights law in Israel and globally. She founded New Family in 1998 to practice her SocioLegal philosophy of the new family in which every individual has an inalienable right to establish a family and to exercise equal rights within it regardless of gender, religion, nationality, sexual orientation and status. Rosenblum drafted and promoted 20 family rights laws and wrote 17 Family Rights guides. She is a respected legal innovator and the recipient of distinctions in Israel and abroad.