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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.”

Last August, as I celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary, I quietly marked another anniversary of sorts: half a decade of searching, meddling, advising, consoling, celebrating—and

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Family Matters: New Love in an Old City

by Robert Hirschfield

Who ever saw Jerusalem naked?/ Even archaeologists never did. —Yehuda Amichai Other than in Israeli poet Amichai’s works—and in the story of King David—Jerusalem is seldom

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Family Matters: Under My Skin

by Harvey Silverman

There was always a jar of chicken fat in the refrigerator when I was growing up. Interesting stuff, chicken fat. It is solid but soft,

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Family Matters: Kosher Tattoos

by David Bartal

Five years ago, my son, Yoav, and I were both lying on narrow cots in a corridor of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. My

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Family Matters: Extending an Arm

by Beth Kissileff

When my husband was let go from his job with a nonprofit due to downsizing, we were filled with uncertainty and terror for the future.

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Today I Am a Director

by Ted Merwin

Isaac Soloway may be a fairly typical Los Angeles Jewish teenager, but his bar mitzva was anything but the standard Jewish coming-of-age ritual. The event

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Family Matters: Basket in the Nile

by Leora Eren Frucht

I am seated in a dim room, my son lying on a bed beside me. His eyes are closed, his thick dark lashes brushing his

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The Crystal Monitor

I hoped I was done with flimflam in 1952 when a Coney Island fortuneteller sent my Orthodox mother’s life savings up in smoke. But now