Let’s Talk About Sex (Ed)
Let’s talk about sex. Specifically, let’s talk about Sex Ed. As someone who’s been researching infertility in the Jewish community, my concern is not…
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5 Ways to Help Jews on Fertility Journeys
Jewish continuity is the idee fixe of American Jewish communal discussions. We talk about it. All. The. Time. We debate whether the best route…
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The Pain of Infertility in the Jewish Community
Americans speak openly about breast cancer and domestic violence — subjects that were taboo in recent memory — but infertility remains relatively hush-hush. Meanwhile,…
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Words of Wisdom on Adoption
Are you considering adoption or fostering (potentially leading to adoption)? If you’re curious but don’t know where to start, here’s some collective wisdom from…
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Jewish Adoption Embraces the World
What does a Jew look like? Woody Allen famously played with stereotypes in Hannah and Her Sisters, when his secular character imagined himself through…
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Our Adoption Story—So Far
I have looked forward to adopting a child for almost half of my life. I grew up around others who had grown their families…
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Adoption in the Jewish Community
When altFem first asked to write about adoption in the Jewish community, I had no idea how massive a topic it would be, how…
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Infertile Muslim Couples Face Tough Choices, Pressure
Genetics counselor Lama Eldahdah spends most of her time thinking about reproductive probabilities, but when she sits down with Muslim patients who are battling…
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AltFem Looks at Adoption: Editor’s Letter on Summer Adoption Series
Families come in different forms, that is an undisputed fact. No one family is the same and family life, or a lack of one,…
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The Road Not Taken
Former Lehman Brothers CFO Erin Callan Montella doesn’t want her new book painted as “the anti-Lean In treatise”. But what if, regardless of the…
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