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By Steve Israel

To Chapter 2

Chapter 1 - Preparing for Children: Life Questions

A: Background

1. Introduction
2. To Have or Not to Have - The Question of Children.
3. Be Fruitful - The First Commandment
4. Problems of Parenthood - Barrenness and Difficult Children in the Torah Model
5. Strengthening the Argument: Survival Issues
6. What of Individual Choice? The Question of Personal Autonomy
7. Discomfort with the Jewish Family Model
8. The Clash with Tradition
9. A Minyan of Kids? The Question of Family Size
10. Reinforcing the Family Model - The Shoah and the Jewish State
11. Pro-Active Limits? On Birth Control and Abortion
12. Thank G-d I'm a Man? The Question of Gender Preference
13. Critiquing the Traditional Position
14. Filling a Gap: Part One. Issues of Infertility
15. Filling the Gap: Part Two. Adoption
    
    
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B: Text Section

16. The Barrenness of Sarah
17. The First Commandment
18. The Importance of Bearing Children
    The Importance of Bearing Children: Don't Preach, Do!
19. Childbearing - A Command for all Times?
20. Regrets About Birth: The Curse of Jeremiah
21. The Question of Gender: A Disagreement
22. The Question of Gender: The First Creation Story's Version
23. On Those Without Children
24. The Importance of Procreation: For This the World Exists
25. G-D's Presence: Among the Children
26. The Disgrace of the Barren Woman
27. The Disgrace of the Barren Woman: Rachel as Test Case
28. Yearning for Children: The Story of Hannah
    
    
    

C: Suggestions for Educational Activities

29. The Jewish Family Stereotype
30. Hannah's Heartbreak
31. Responding to Rachel (Bluwstein)
32. Apocalypse Then
33. Children as a Response to the Shoah
34. Birth Pangs and Birth Pressures
35. Making Men and Women
    
    
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D: Bibliography