30.08.2011                      30.Aw-Elul, 5771                      Rosch Chodesch 1

Innenpolitik:

Rights activist: Israeli government should finance couples forced to wed abroad

Cyprus is out as a wedding destination and alternative ceremonies are in.

The state should finance overseas weddings for couples who are not allowed to marry in Israel, civil rights activists have told the Trajtenberg committee, the government-appointed panel for socioeconomic change.
“Some 300,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union are not recognized as Jews according to the halakha and are denied the right to marry in Israel,” says Alex Tentzer, an activist for civil marriages in the Russian-speaking community….