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Mother in Israel’s Guide to the Polio Vaccine Campaign 25 Aug 2013 | 01:42 pm
OPV record of my daughter, born in January 2004 Israel lives with constant military threats. Lately we are dealing with an invisible threat, the polio virus, which has crossed our borders via Egypt. ...
Mothers and Fathers, 2013 24 Jul 2013 | 05:15 pm
The blog post below was written in Hebrew by Esther Pelled, author of the blog Unedited. She is responding in part to a report on Channel Two News last Saturday evening, which claimed that the Israeli...
Tips for Couples Struggling with Infertility 17 Jul 2013 | 02:30 pm
I wrote this post a long time ago, after attending a talk by Natalie Taylor at the Kolech conference on fertility. Unfortunately the topic still relevant for many women. At the time the speaker was pr...
Tomorrow’s Wars 26 Jun 2013 | 03:42 pm
Professor Edward N. Luttwak Last year I asked, “Where Are the Children of Tomorrow?” about the absence of sessions about parents and children at Tomorrow 2012, also known as the President’s Conferenc...
Thank You to a Stranger from a Special Needs Mom 10 Jun 2013 | 12:16 pm
Please welcome Hadassah Rosenthal for today’s guest post. Hadassah’s moving story has a lesson for all parents. Yesterday was my 5-year-old daughter’s first day at the pool. I’ve heard way too many st...
Tolerance and Women of the Wall 9 Jun 2013 | 10:09 am
How to relate to the prayer group, “Women of the Wall,” has been one of the most divisive issues in the National Religious community in Israel. I wrote up my thoughts and published them on Times of I...
Israeli Baby Name Help, June 2013 5 Jun 2013 | 08:24 pm
Today we have three readers seeking help with baby names: Is Yaeli a common first name in Israel or just the nickname for Yael? We like Yaeli more, but here in Germany we have to prove that it’s a “re...
Guest Post: Story of Orthodox Teen Pregnancy 4 Jun 2013 | 09:13 am
The author of today’s guest post wishes to remain anonymous: This story has a happy ending, mostly. It almost didn’t. I grew up in a religious household, and I knew what the expectations were, yet wh...
Surrogate Mothering by Religious Women 28 May 2013 | 11:33 pm
Rika Koren, 32, divorced and the mother of two, served as a surrogate mother for an infertile couple and plans to do so again. In an interview with the newspaper Makor Rishon, Koren expanded on the re...
Modesty, Mikveh and the Female Convert 16 May 2013 | 02:51 am
Help wanted: Men to serve on the rabbinic court to supervise immersion of conversion candidates. Producer Nirit Yaakovs-Yinon, a religious Jewish woman, got interested in the concerns of female conver...
