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This Women Owned Startup Is Reshaping Egg Donation
Cofertility is ‘leading the way for a more transparent and ethical the entire industry to become more transparent and ethical,’ says cofounder Halle Tecco.

Cofertility is ‘leading the way for a more transparent and ethical the entire industry to become more transparent and ethical,’ says cofounder Halle Tecco.
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The Power and Danger of Secrets
You are only as sick as your secrets,” I was told during my inpatient stint at McLean psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Mass.

You are only as sick as your secrets,” I was told during my inpatient stint at McLean psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Mass.
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My Cousin Fritz Was Married to a Nazi
Finding out the woman who sat at our dinner table was a Nazi.

Finding out the woman who sat at our dinner table was a Nazi.
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How Genealogy Became the Great Jewish Pastime
“America is a country of immigrants. Most people don’t even know where their grandparents are from. And there’s a lot of family mythology that is not necessarily true.”

“America is a country of immigrants. Most people don’t even know where their grandparents are from. And there’s a lot of family mythology that is not necessarily true.”

Family Matters: Dream Come True, With Complications

I used to dream of getting married and becoming a mother. And as one of four kids, I always wanted four of my own children.

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A Dreidel ’Round Your Wrist In a rainbow of colors and designs—from the alef-bet to Noah’s Ark and its pairs of animals—Biblical Bandz are sweeping the tween-to-teen

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Commentary: Our Bodies, Our Homes

by Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon

I recently spent two nights with my sister and her husband, Joshua Cahan, at a private beach house on the Pacific. The trip was a

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Family Matters: Saving Graces

by Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon

In Jewish life, we frequently use physical objects to engage in God’s mitzvot, but while these rituals are transitory, the objects are not. In most

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Family Matters: Steel Drum Hora

by Michele Chabin

On a cold February day in 2008, my husband, Sid, and I heard the words we had long anticipated. a “Dad, Michele, Leslie and I

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Family Matters: Mourning Offstage

by Barbara Trainin Blank

“The Jewish religion provides an exquisitely structured approach to mourning.”—Rabbi Maurice Lamm, The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning (Jonathan David Publishers). Everyone observing aveilut, the traditional

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Letter from Paris: The Presence of Absence

by Marlene Roberts Banet

Though George was ‘only a boy’ when French police forced his family out of their apartment, the experience never left him.

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Family Matters: Riding in Noah’s Ark

by Nina Mogilnik

Raising a special child takes parents on a journey full of ups and downs, joy and heartbreak. The air was crisp and clean. The snow