jff educational RESOURCES
Educational Webinars
Loving Someone with Infertility
Fertility Clinic Trainings
JFF facilitates Live Discussions and Q&As with infertility therapists, physicians, legal experts, and related organizations. Watch the full webinar recordings, HERE.
Fertility Clinic Trainings
Loving Someone with Infertility
Fertility Clinic Trainings
JFF trains fertility clinics staff about the special needs of
Observant Jewish patients
Loving Someone with Infertility
Loving Someone with Infertility
Loving Someone with Infertility
JFF organizes yearly seminars around how to best love someone with infertility for spouses, parents, families and friends
Pathways to Parenthood
Suggested Reading Material
Loving Someone with Infertility
JFF organizes community-based panel events to teach individuals going through infertility about family building options
Mikvah Trainings
Suggested Reading Material
Suggested Reading Material
JFF offers infertility sensitivity trainings to Mikvah attendants and Clergy in each of its locals communities. See Tips for
Suggested Reading Material
Suggested Reading Material
Suggested Reading Material
Check out JFF's suggested reading material for individuals going through infertility, as well as their family and friends
more information on infertiliTy
WHAT IS INFERTILITY
INFERTILITY IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
INFERTILITY IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
- Infertility is a disease that results in the abnormal functioning of the male or female reproductive system.
-WHO, ASRM, ACOG
- Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after one year of unprotected intercourse (six months if the woman is over age 35) or the inability to carry a pregnancy to live birth.
-Resolve.org
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) does not require coverage for infertility treatments. Those states with an infertility mandate that covers IVF may have chosen an Essential Health Benefits (EHB) benchmark plan that includes the IVF mandate.
-Resolve.org
INFERTILITY IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
INFERTILITY IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
INFERTILITY IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
- All three denominations (reform, conservative, and orthodox) will experience age related decline in fertility equally. The age brackets won't vary but diagnosis at presentation likely will.
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and male factor will be most prevalent among the orthodox because of high rates of obesity in the orthodox community and because marriage and attempts at fecundity start earlier than among conservative and reform.
- Conversely the reform and conservative would be more likely to experience egg related issues as they typically have first attempt at pregnancy older than orthodox women.