PBS POV on (Jewish) Adoption

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For the next few weeks (begining Tuesday evening), the American PBS stations that carry the POV (Point of View) documentary series will take a peak at adoptions, and surprisingly, both the selected films will be of keen interest to Jewlicious... In the first documentary, a Jewish family adopts an eight year old girl from China. In “Off And Running,” a Jewish couple in Park Slope / Brooklyn have several adopted children of various backgrounds. They already have two biologically born sons, (one of whom is prepping for his Bar Mitzvah) and one daughter that they adopted from China a couple years earlier. In the documentary, their daughter, an African American young woman, who had attended a Jewish day school, decides to search for her birth mother. Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy by Stephanie Wang-Breal will be broadcast on Tuesday, Aug. They are Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy , and Off And Running....

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Aug 13, 2009 by Gemma | Posted in Israel

I'm Jewish but I really don't know this and I've been wondering about this. What is the Orthodox view on giving Jewish babies up for adoption? I am talking about say for example a young Jewish girl who is unmarried and by some chance be it rape or incest

A: i don't know anyone it happened too, but you would be allowed to give it up for adoption. just make sure it goes to jewish parents... i know there is an organization (maybe in america) that deals with jewish adoptions...
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If you were born to a jewish mother but adopted are you still jewish?

Aug 20, 2009 by Tom | Posted in Religion & Spirituality

My birth mother was jewish but I was given up for adoption and was adopted by a secular family. Technically am I jewish?

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