Matir Asurim

My ex-MIL put me in touch with a woman she knows who adopted 2 boys from Russia almost 20 years ago.  I had a good long conversation with he...

Let me try again.  Perhaps I am approaching this the wrong way .   After all, I don't want to convince Secular Humanists and Atheists th...

So I was talking with my husband tonight, and he was sharing a conversation he had earlier with a friend.  He realized that part of his trep...

Our letter of intent has just been received and approved by the appropriate Ministry in............  So now they have a file open for us. Ya...

1.  Had our first home-study meeting.  Got a stack of paperwork to fill.  The little boys behaved beautifully  for nearly 2 hours!  The soci...

 A social worker will be contacting us within a week to begin the homestudy!   She just called me this evening and we made our first homestu...

In part 4 of the Amidah , we ask for guidance in matters of Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding: You graciously bestow knowledge upon man ...

A few days ago I considered the question of "How to decide how to allocate charity money?" on the level of adoption vs. in-country...

1. My husband and I are taking concrete steps towards a special needs adoption!  We are discussing different options, and starting to put to...

We are a traditional, but not very religious Jewish family.  We live in a suburb of Boston, MA.  I (Galit) am a stay-at-home mom with profes...