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Grapevine: A family celebration

The Habimah Theater celebrates 15 years and families celebrate weddings and barmitzvah's.

Habimah Theater
Photo by: Itsik Marom
■ AMONG THE star attractions at the Habimah Theater reception for the 15th-anniversary celebrations of the New Family organization – which lawyer Irit Rosenblum founded to find solutions to unconventional relationships – was Jerusalem gay couple Dan Goldberg and Arnon Angel.

The two men, who are familiar to anyone who patronizes the Tmol Shilshom restaurant in the heart of the capital, made international headlines just under three years ago when they were stranded for more than two months in Mumbai with their twins Itai and Liron. Goldberg had fathered the twins, whom an Indian surrogate mother had carried to term, but he could not bring the twins into Israel without undergoing a paternity test, and the Family Court refused to authorize the test, saying it was outside its jurisdiction. Rosenblum got involved, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked Interior Minister Eli Yishai to allow Goldberg to bring his twins to Israel. The Knesset also discussed the matter, with many MKs supporting Goldberg’s plea.

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