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By Debra A.W. Berger
Professional advice about how to incorporate aspects of an adopted child’s culture into daily life.
Date: 08-14-2006
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By Sarah Price Brown
Article on Asian children growing up in Jewish families and the challenges they face reconciling their dual identities.
Date: 11-20-2006
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By Gina Hagler
Personal narrative from a converted Jew who is raising adopted Korean children as Jews with her husband, and is looking for a synagogue that feels right.
Date: 11-20-2006
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By Jane Calem Rosen
News and general information article about the increasing numbers of Jewish gay couples who are adopting children, and the Jewish communal organizations that have developed to aid and welcome these families.
Date: 11-06-2006
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By Ellen S. Glazer
Professional view and news article about different facets of Jewish adoption: the biblical precedents for intertility, the post-Holocaust Jewish need to repopulate, and the patrilineal descent issue for gay Jewish couples.
Date: 11-05-2006
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By Hedi Molnar
Personal narrative from the child of Holocaust survivors describing how she felt compelled to connect with and pass on Judaism once she had (adopted) children.
Date: 08-02-2006
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By Elyssa Mosbacher
Reprinted news article about four Jewish children, ages 5-18, whose parents died tragically, and the (Christian) parents who adopted them were committed to continuing their Jewish education, so they enrolled them in Jewish day
Date: 11-06-2006
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By Kathy Ann Brodsky
Professional view from the Director of the Amet Adoption Program and Infertility to Adoption Program giving pointers and guidelines on how and when to tell your kids that they are adopted.
Date: 11-20-2006
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By Hedi Molnar
Personal narrative from a Jewish woman who is raising her Chinese daughters Jewish with her Italian-Catholic husband.
Date: 11-20-2006
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By Dina Beach Lynch
Personal narrative by an adopted woman whose Catholic parents ignored her birth mother’s wish that she be raised Jewish, nevertheless, the woman always "felt" Jewish growing up, and continues on a journey to become a learned
Date: 11-06-2006