Parenting

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
Dr. Masua Sagiv is a Senior Faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute and the academic advisor of its Center for Shared Society, as well as a senior fellow at the Helen Diller Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Masua’s work addresses the fundamental challenges facing both Israeli society and North American Jewish communities, from rising antisemitism and campus tensions to Jewish peoplehood and the complex relationship between Israel and world Jewry. Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the

Joshua Ladon

Elana Frank

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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