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Jewish Egg Donation: The Voices You Haven’t Heard

TEST We’ve been hearing more and more about egg donors over the last several years as women keep pushing the limits of the biological clock. We may hear statistics and even legal coverage of unusual cases in the media. But we on staff had plenty of questions: What is the physical process really like? What is the Jewish legal perspective? What would a Jewish donor who has gone through the process have to say? What would the head of a Jewish fertility clinic want you to know? We spent the last couple of months rounding up experts who have particular insights into these questions and asked them to share their thoughts.
Michelle Cove, Editor, mcove@brandeis.edu

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•Donor eggs are now used in 12% of all IVF attempts, making it among the fastest-growing infertility treatments.

Source: "Your Gamete, Myself" by
Peggy Orenstein (The New York Times Magazine, July 15 2007).

		A Strange New World Why we wanted to devote an entire issue to the topic of Jewish egg donation.

		Behind Closed Doors What happens between the moment a woman decides to become an egg donor and the moment she receives her final payment?

		Israeli Egg Scandal How two greedy Jewish doctors left Israeli women nervous about donating their eggs..

		Thoughts from a Donor A Jewish woman talks candidly about some of the ups and down of her donating experiences over the years—and why she chose to do it in the first place.

		The Egg Matchmaker Meet the owner of an agency that matches American Jewish women who need eggs with Israeli donors.

		By The Book What Jewish law has to say about the ultra-modern, ultra-complex world of egg donation.

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