Conference taveng::bagels

    
    
    Re: .0
    
    >I would like information on adopting a Jewish child.
    
    Is the reason for this because you are Jewish?
    
    Jem

Edgar-
If you mean adopting a child from Israel to somewhere outside of
Israel, forget it! Unless you live in Israel you cannot adopt an
Israeli child. I know of American Jewish people who tried and
were told to come live in Israel first... (BTW, I agree with that
policy.)
If you mean adopting a Jewish child somewhere else-- 
If you live in the Boston area contact the Jewish Family
and Children's Service (in Boston or Brookline, not sure which).
But there are so few Jewish children waiting for adoption and
so many Jewish would-be-adoptive-parents that I wouldn't bother
unless you and/or your wife are Jewish. If you are from somewhere
other than this area I think you will find the same to be true, but
I have no 1st hnd information.
-ZAITCH

    	Friends of mine successfully adopted a Jewish baby boy a couple of
    years ago, without an excessively long wait.  Contact me by mail and I
    can get a reference.

    		DAvid

    Edgar,
          A very close friend of mine just went through the process of
    adopting a baby.  It took several years, but he and his wife did
    manage to adopt an infant baby boy.
    
    The baby was NOT born to Jewish parents.  The baby was circumsized
    by a moil, and has or is going through the formal process of conversion
    as prescribed by the conservative Jewish movement.
    
    My friends (who works for DEC) found that finding a Jewish child
    was nearly impossible.
    
    The actual process involved extensive background checks of the parents
    by both friends and co-workers.
    
    If you are interested, please call me at DTN 226-6976 or send me a note
    on TALLIS::COHEN and I will give you my friends name.
    
    Shalom,
            Ron
    

    	I checked the story yesterday, and it turns out to have been just
    luck that my friends wound up with a Jewish baby.  They went through
    one of the regular private adoption services (the kind that charge
    multi $$$).
    
    	I apologize for implying that there was a good way to go about
    this.
    
    		David 

    
    Hi,
    
    Why is the reasson that if your not Jewish or you have to live in 
    Israel in order to adopt a child that needs the warmth of a home
    and the security of a family? Is this being extremist? Does the
    Jewish law prohibits this? Can somebody explain?
    
    Shalom
    Edgar

    Re: .6
    
    In the US I belive there are more Jewish couples seeking children to
    adopt than there are Jewish children available for adoption.
    
    And the government of Israel probably doesn't want to send  children
    into the disapora.
    
    				Paul
    

    This is an interesting topic.  Today, I would sell my soul for a
    child.  Alas, I would just about guarantee my failure.  I doubt
    that any agency would allow me to adopt a child, Jewish or otherwise
    because I am single, live alone, am over 40 and my salary would
    hardly meet the guidelines.
    
    I say if you want a child and can give him/her a good home, who
    the H E double hockey sticks of what faith the biological father
    and mother came from.  Afterall, I hate to sound gross but just
    cause Part A and Part B were together that hardly constitutes "parents". 
    
    I say set your own values to the child once in your arms and the
    faith, whatever it was, will seem so minute.  This child will be
    your child and will have what you set up as a role model.
    
    Take it from an expert of being without....it would be far better
    to be with a child who was not biologically born of Jewish faith
    m/f than to be without completely.
    
    Good luck.
    
    Adriane Gilder
    
    P.S. to .6----what word is disapora....I just looked it up in the
    dictionary.  I couldn't find it.  Is it a Yiddish word?  If so,
    my Yiddish is much rustier than I thought!
                           

    re: .8

re: .8

>    This is an interesting topic.  Today, I would sell my soul for a
>    child.  Alas, I would just about guarantee my failure.  I doubt
>    that any agency would allow me to adopt a child, Jewish or otherwise
>    because I am single, live alone, am over 40 and my salary would
>    hardly meet the guidelines.

I'm just catching up with some old notes... I agree with you about it
being hard to adopt in your circumstances, so why not do what I did -
HAVE a child.  I also felt very strongly about having a child, ever since
I can remember, so I entered an artificial insemination program, and after
many many tries and lots of work, had a beautiful baby girl last May, who
is the joy of my life and the completion of my soul...

Waky

I'm happy to announce the adoption of Dina Chana Sacks, born 20-Nov-1992,
and her birth sister Shoshana Rivka Sacks, born 14-Mar-1994.  The adoption
became official on October 13 when the Supreme Court of Moldova granted
our appeal of a lower court decision that had rejected our petition.  We
arrived in the U.S. on October 27.

    Mazel Tov!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    G-d's blessings to you and your family.