{"id":13517,"date":"2019-08-15T18:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/08\/15\/civil-solution-needed-for-israels-religious-marriage-monopoly"},"modified":"2019-08-15T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:30:30","slug":"civil-solution-needed-for-israels-religious-marriage-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/08\/15\/civil-solution-needed-for-israels-religious-marriage-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Civil Solution&#8217; Needed for Israel&#8217;s Religious Marriage Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uWiDkxCqnXo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this clip<\/a> (04:37), meet a handful of the thousands of couples who are unable to get married in Israel each year. Israel being the only democratic country that does not offer a civil marriage option, many couples who do not meet the religious Jewish criteria for marriage choose to either tie the knot abroad or not tie the knot at all. Hear a few of their stories here.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this clip (04:37), meet a handful of the thousands of couples who are unable to get married in Israel each year. Israel being the only democratic country that does not offer a civil marriage option, many couples who do not meet the religious Jewish criteria for marriage choose to either tie the knot abroad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":13518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2548],"tags":[3111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=13517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13517\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13518\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=13517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=13517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=13517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}