Parshas Noach promises us rebirth and redemption after spiritual death. We get another chance to choose life.

Parshas Bereshit begins our annual Torah reading cycle and a journey towards God awareness and spiritual restoration.

Can we produce children via IVF without destroying innocent human life?

The Festival of Sukkot reminds us that God gives us life, food and shelter.

Bloodshed from legal abortion in Israel will continue despite peace deal

When we abandon holiness and respect for human life, rest assured that repentance will once again restore divine protection.

The anticipated rise in prenatal screening as a profit driven, eugenics enterprise will undoubtedly lead to the destruction of many innocent children. Some will be perfectly healthy. Some will be very sick. Some will have treatable medical conditions. All will be denied a voice and their God given dignity and right to life.

Permissive views of abortion in Judaism for maternal mental illness deny life to our most vulnerable family members based on primitive stories about mental health challenges. These views disregard a mother’s mental anguish after her child’s demise and offer no healing opportunity afterward. They ignore supportive and therapeutic interventions that alleviate a mother’s mental problems and safeguard her baby’s life.

We know that abortion is the deliberate violent destruction of an unborn baby. We know that doing this hurts mothers and fathers in many ways. Accordingly, we provide moral and practical support that saves the baby and parents from harm as we would help parents of a toddler find life saving solutions to their living problems.

Reducing a baby in the womb to ‘mere water’ originally offered relief from guilt for miscarriage, an event outside the control of loving parents. Now, denying an unborn baby's existence gives relief from guilt to those who willfully destroy innocent life in the womb.