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(Kveller via JTA) — About a year ago, I decided to be completely honest on Facebook and found out the true connective power of social networks: I told my friends that my youngest child would die from a rare genetic disease. Before revealing her illness, I used Facebook like many others. I was “on brand”…
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Culture How The Jews Beat Tay Sachs
Not long ago, having a baby was a fairly straightforward venture. When a couple decided to have a child, they’d ditch the birth control pills and dim the lights. But with no plastic wand with twin purple lines to offer instant at-home confirmation, there was no easy way to gauge success. The first home pregnancy…
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News Transplanting for Tay-Sachs, It’s a Decision to Have Hope
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News Gene Therapy Offers Hope for Fatal Jewish Diseases — but How Soon?
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Culture A Network for Courageous Parents Offers New Views, Advice on Grief
Sitting next to her husband in their Palm City, Florida, living room, Oralea Marquardt describes the last few moments of her 8-year-old son William’s life. Displayed prominently behind the Marquardts are photographs of William, who died in February from GM1 — a genetic disorder that causes a progressive loss of cognitive and motor functions. “He…
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Culture Two Grieving Mothers, One Friendship
Scanning her inbox last fall, Becky Benson happened upon an unusual request from a pregnant friend, Emily Rapp: Would she mind if Rapp gave the baby a middle name to honor Benson’s younger daughter, Elliott? If the proposition sounded weird to her, the email went on, she should just feel free to forget it. “I…
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