How Do We Talk About (In)Fertility?

There are different paths to creating and raising a Jewish family, and fertility struggles are often hidden and historically stigmatized.

Masua Sagiv, Joshua Ladon, Elana Frank

August 24, 2023

August 24, 2023

Masua Sagiv

Dr. Masua Sagiv is Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute based in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel, as a culture, religion, nationality, and as part of Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores the role of law, state actors

Joshua Ladon

Elana Frank

Parenting, Perfect Jewish Parents, Podcasts

There are different paths to creating and raising a Jewish family, and fertility struggles are often hidden and historically stigmatized. Elana Frank, CEO and founder, of the Jewish Fertility Foundation and host of the popular fertility podcast, Fruitful and Multiplying, joins Perfect Jewish Parents hosts Masua Sagiv and Joshua Ladon to discuss challenging the standard narrative of how to create a Jewish family as well as her fertility journey.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

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Perfect Jewish Parents is a podcast from the Shalom Hartman Institute about the joys and oys of raising children Jewishly, hosted by Hartman faculty and parents Masua Sagiv and Joshua Ladon.

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