Amy Klein is the author of The Trying Game: How to Get Pregnant and Get Through Fertility Treatment Without Losing Your Mind.
Amy Klein
By Amy Klein
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Politics This election, I finally understand the undecided Jewish voter
Oct. 7 and its aftermath scrambled the political certainties of many pro-Israel voters, writes a longtime Jewish journalist
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Opinion First they came for our abortions, now they’re coming for our embryos
The Southern Baptist Convention's vote condemning IVF is the latest assault on fertility treatment that 1 in 6 Jewish families use
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Fast Forward How an Israeli TikToker’s little-known song became the soundtrack to emotional wartime reunions
In hundreds of videos, a Hebrew song with the lyrics “Good days will come…” builds to its crescendo as the soldier’s family falls upon him
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News Comedians defend Israel the best way they know how: Make ’em laugh
Comics use social media to mock opponents and to cope with the tensions of a bloody war
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Life Amy Coney Barrett may threaten access to IVF, and Jewish fertility advocates are worried
When does life actually begin? Some conservatives — Supreme Court Justice candidate Amy Coney Barett among them — believe that it begins at fertilization. That poses a potential challenge not only to abortion advocates, but to the one in eight American couples suffering infertility — and many Jewish organizations and fertility advocates are concerned about…
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Opinion Infertility is a Jewish issue. It’s time the community recognized it.
It feels like a weird time to be talking about infertility, especially here in New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with tens of thousands of people hospitalized and dying from the virus, not to mention the psychological effects the pandemic and self-isolation will have on our population here and around the world….
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Life Can we all just chill out this Passover?
As this crazy coronavirus Passover is upon us, I am reminded of a panicked Passover that changed the course of my religious observance: When I was a Modern Orthodox twenty-something living the Zionist dream in Israel, I went to be with my good friend’s family for Passover. She was Sabbath-observant and single, like me, and…
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Life Israeli Scientists Find That Babies Develop Empathy As Early As Six Months
If you think that an infant is just lumps of cooing, crying, smiling, sleeping and pooping, think again. Resesarchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Hebrew University in Israel found that babies as young as six months actually can exhibit empathy. In a paper published in British Journal of Psychology, researchers doing two experiments debunked the theory that babies only develop the ability…
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