Growing up in a Modern Orthodox family in Miami Beach in the 1960s was like being raised in a Technicolor Anatevka. Shabbats and Jewish holidays dictated the rhythm of life for the community. I spent ...

For the Stern College women gathered for a lecture on birth control and Jewish law last week, it wasn’t an easy pill to swallow. Even in this Modern Orthodox setting in Midtown Manhattan, far from the ...

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An example of the decline of the Jewish birth rate in Germany is furnished by figures for Stettin and Krefeld. In the former city, there have been 11 deaths and one birth among the 1,900 Jews since ...

A Jewish woman in Strasbourg, France, gave birth to sextuplets. The five girls and one boy were born very prematurely on Thursday at the Hautepierre Hospital in Strasbourg, requiring the assistance of ...

Birth rates among Israel’s Jews are on the rise compared with those of Arab citizens, population data reveal. Yediot Achronot published a report Wednesday showing that over the last decade, the Jewish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The birth certificate was returned from the Home Office with the father's place of birth- Israel - scribbled out The father of a ...

My sister came into our family based on a lie—a lie that no one in our family knew about for the first 23 years of her life—until she decided to seek out her birth parents. It was only then that she ...