Tagged adoption

Activist rabbi to speak at JFSA women’s Connections brunch
February 2, 2017 / Kaye Patchett, Special to the AJP
Rabbi Susan Silverman

Activism and family values are in Rabbi Susan Silverman’s DNA. Raised in a secular Jewish home in New Hampshire by parents committed to liberal politics, she is active on behalf of asylum seekers in Israel, advocates for liberal Judaism and is founding director of Second Nurture, which promotes adoption… Read more »

Becoming a Jewish mother – by way of adoption – in Japan
August 20, 2015 / Leza Lowitz, Kveller via JTA

(Kveller via JTA) — I’m standing on a cliff 50 feet above the Pacific Ocean, balanced on a precipice between two worlds. I don’t know how life has brought me to this place, this beautiful rock on the Izu Peninsula in Japan, but I’m here with my Japanese husband… Read more »