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Adoption

Naming Our Past, Present & Future

By Craig Cohen

Quinn receiving her Hebrew name Giving your child a Hebrew name is a long-standing tradition in Judaism. Sometimes...

Adoption, Babies, Baby Naming, Birth Ceremony, Extended Family, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

Now What?

By Craig Cohen

You just spent several hours or days in the hospital giving birth to your child or, in our case, several months...

Adoption, Babies, Baby Naming, Parenting Stories

new father with baby

How We Met…Our Baby

By Craig Cohen

We each have our own story about when we saw, held or heard our children for the first time and we all arrived...

Adoption, Babies, Baby Planning, Fatherhood, New Parents

Patrilineal Descent: Should the Baby be Taken to the Mikveh for Conversion?

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

Do you know which of the following children would be considered Jewish without going through a conversion according...

Adoption, Babies, Birth Ceremony, Conversion, Identity, Mikveh, Religion

A Jewish Rainbow: Transcultural and Transracial Adoption

By Shelley Kapneck Rosenberg

636 Jessica, who was adopted from Korea at age two, has three small flags on a stand in her bedroom, one...

Adoption, Family

International Adoption and Interfaith Families

By 18Doors

917 The Saturday before Thanksgiving is now widely recognized as National Adoption Day. In some parts...

Adoption

My Chinese Daughter’s Bat Mitzvah

By Hedi Molnar

The contract is signed: We’ll have a luncheon after the service in an elegant room, all white and light, overlooking...

Adoption, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Parenting

baby booties

The Blessings of Jewish Interracial Adoption

By Rabbi Daniel Kohn

206 My family tends to stand out in a crowd. Although my wife and I are both white, our fifteen-month-old...

Adoption, Multiracial, Parenting

Interfaith Infertility Issues

By Ellen Glazer

445 May 2004 Several years ago, I led a support group for women experiencing infertility. As often happened...

Adoption, Baby Planning, Pregnancy

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