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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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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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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Love and Long-Term Relationships
It took eight years, but Jon Hamm is finally an Emmy winner. Sadly, he won on the only Emmy night he’s attended without…
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Fertility Gets the Hollywood Treatment
We’ve all heard about suffering for beauty. What about suffering for a baby? Pregnancy is no walk in the park, but it’s typically easier…
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Zoning Boards Go Nuclear on Too-Traditional Families
The people in 68 Scarborough St., in Hartford, Conn., make an unlikely band of outlaws. The eight adults and three children live in a…
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Millennials’ Marriage Problem
The other day, something came across my newsfeed about Kourtney Kardashian’s pregnancy style. I’ll hand it to her; she’s a stylish pregnant lady. And we…
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