Matir Asurim

Once again, I am over a week behind.... Parshat Bo describes the climax of the plagues on Egypt, culminating in the first Passover, and c...

Many in the Down syndrome community have come across Emily Kingsley's "Welcome to Holland" : I am often asked to describe t...

I have been procrastinating on blogging last week's reading .  It is so overdone.   Everybody knows the Plagues.  I'll be brief, and...

Why are so many children waiting year after year in foster care, orphanages and institutions around the world?  Why, when so many childless ...

This is truly awe-inspiring, and Julia does a great job of photo-journalism here.  I have nothing to add.

It seems that Russia has decided to honor the bilateral agreement reached last year, and delay putting the ban on adoption by Americans un...

Not mine, sorry. Look at this little boy , who spent the first 6 years of his life in a crib because of severely clubbed feet.  Less than ...