Infertility Awareness

Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future's recent newsletter announces a new project which will develop a training program for rabbis to build expertise on issues relating to infertility in halakha:

As a follow-up to Rabbi Brander’s challenge, CJF’s Special Projects division has spearheaded a groundbreaking intensive training program in the field of infertility and Jewish law for a select group of rabbis. Training for these students will be implemented by a cadre of experts in the field of medicine and Jewish law drawn from faculty at CJF, RIETS, and YU’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The program will be coordinated by Rabbi Josh Joseph, director of the Special Projects division, and involving a curriculum developed and taught by Rabbi Menachem Burstein, director of Machon Puah of Jerusalem, an Israel-based institute dedicated to finding halakhic solutions to fertility matters, Rabbi Kenneth Brander and Rabbi Dr. Eddie Reichman, emergency medicine physician, and professor at YU’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine.