Frederick Hertz, a leading attorney for marriage and divorce law and mediation for same-sex couples, and the author of three books on these issues, returns to Israel this June to speak at 40 Years of Pride: the first ever Global LGBT Leadership Conference in Tel Aviv.
Earlier this year, Frederick Hertz invited US gay family lawyers to come to Israel and learn about the legal and policy issues for gay couples in Israel. The trip took place in February 2015, with fourteen lawyers joining Fred for a week-long visit “It was a fabulous program,” he recalls. “It turned out that the American lawyers learned a lot from the way the LGBT community navigates through law in Israel: that you can extend rights to gay couples even without legalizing marriage.”
“The lack of civil marriage in Israel has led to the creation of an ‘alternative’ approach, via cohabitation rights, that is quite effective,” Hertz explains. “Most of the lawyers in my program had been convinced that the solution had to be via the ending of religious marriage and the enactment of civil marriage. Learning how things are finessed in Israel was a real eye opener to my group. Another aspect was seeing how the issue of Jewish law still dominates family law in Israel, despite it being a ‘modern’ society.”
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