Israel mulls annulment of law requiring parents, adopted kids to share same religion

“A bill that would scrap the requirement that parents be the same religion as the child they adopt will be debated Sunday by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation. The proposed law, submitted by MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz ), would end the de facto discrimination between secular and religious Jews who adopt children.”

Israel mulls annulment of law requiring parents, adopted kids to share same religion

[CNN Religion Blogs 6/18/12 from Haaretz 6/17/12 by Jonathan Lis]

An in-depth explanation of religious matching in Israel can be read in this 75-page pdf here entitled “In the Best Interests of the Group: Religious Matching under Israeli Adoption Law” by Michael M. Karayanni 5/21/10.

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