This Jew-ish card game kept me busy during my infertility treatment
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News Did Nazis make these Jewish women infertile?
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Opinion Roe’s reversal leaves Jewish IVF couples in a legal and emotional crossfire
Lawmakers banning abortion have not considered its effect on couples trying to create new life
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Life Can ‘Kosher’ IVF Help Prevent Fertility Mix-Ups?
When Esther and her husband decided to do fertility treatment, the modern Orthodox couple consulted with their rabbi. “We didn’t think twice about it,” said the New Jersey woman who preferred not to give her full name. She had lost a few pregnancies before starting in vitro fertilization (IVF), the medical process of extracting a…
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News Jewish Egg Donor Agencies Proliferate To Serve Aspiring Parents
When “Chaim Greenstein” and his wife realized that they could not have a biological baby together because his wife was too old, they decided to try to find an egg donor, in the hope that a younger woman’s eggs, combined in a lab with his sperm, would create an embryo that his wife could carry….
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Letters Fertility Is Not The Enemy Of Feminism. The Way The Jewish Community Pushes It Is.
Dear Jane, In the last line in your op ed on Monday entitled “Family is a Jewish Value Don’t let the Mistakes of a Few Rob us of that Gift,” you write, “My children — and now, my grandchildren — are the greatest joy in my life. Why wouldn’t I want everyone to share that…
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News Jewish Women Are Freezing Their Eggs More Than Ever — And Think You Should Too
When “Tamar” was 32, her mother suggested she freeze her eggs. Actually, it was her mother’s gynecologist who’d suggested that she tell her daughter to do it. “I flipped out. I really did,” said Tamar, who preferred not to give her real name. Her mother, Tamar said, isn’t usually the stereotypical intrusive “Jewish mother.” “I…
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Life A New Guide To The Mikveh — For Those Facing Infertility
Immersing in the mikveh is often portrayed by its advocates as a woman’s rebirth — not merely a religious commandment, but a spiritual experience that sustains marital harmony. Jewish tradition holds that couples are forbidden to have sex during menstruation and for a week after, until the woman immerses in a ritual bath, or mikveh,…
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