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For women using IVF to screen embryos for genetic diseases, these peers can offer support

October 29, 2024October 29, 2024Sara Wood

In March 2020, around the time B. and her husband started planning to have children, they learned they each carried genetic mutations with significantly elevated risks for a variety of cancers. BRCA genetic mutations, which are 10 times more common among Ashkenazi Jews than among the general U.S. population, significantly increase the risks of developing […]

Twenty years in, this Jewish prize has turbocharged the work of a few remarkable humanitarians

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024Jesse Orine

NEW YORK — When Sasha Chanoff received the $100,000 Charles Bronfman Prize in 2010 for his work helping refugees worldwide find safe haven, jobs and social stability, he used the occasion of the awards ceremony in New York to introduce a family that his organization had helped reunite. The emotional event sparked a turning […]