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fertility
A new era for Torah-based fertility treatment
Danielle Berrin
June 11, 2014
As modern couples are marrying later and often postponing having children, the use of cutting-edge fertility treatments, such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryonic genetic testing, is gaining widespread popularity and acceptance.
Rabbinical marriage counseling works — up to a point
Marc Ballon
October 5, 2006
Although rabbis can play a positive role in brokering a reconciliation in couples with relatively minor problems, they are generally ill-equipped, both educationally and often temperamentally, to grapple with spousal abuse, depression, bullying and other serious issues that can destroy marriages and souls.
Market Yourself Into Marriage
Amy Klein
October 9, 2003
Why are you single?\” The woman who recently hurled this accusation at me, I suppose, intended it as a compliment: how could someone as ________ as me not have a husband?
Supervising Life
Gaby Wenig
February 6, 2003
Two women shared a room in a major Israeli hospital some years ago, both awaiting the insemination portion of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. One of the women, \”Mrs. Cohen,\” was undergoing the procedure under the supervision of a mashgiach [religious supervisor] from Machon Puah — an Israeli religious fertility institution — and the other, \”Mrs. Rabinovich,\” was not.
Findings Reveal Demographic Shift
Joe Berkofsky
October 10, 2002
This is the American Jewish world, by the numbers, as revealed in the just-released National Jewish Population Survey 2000-2001 (NJPS):
Better With Age
Jane Ulman
May 9, 2002
\”You\’re the oldest of all my friends\’ moms,\” my son, Danny, 11, tells me.
Like I don\’t know this. Or have a card for senior discounts or billions of cells that have lost their elasticity to prove it.
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