YATOM PARTICIPANT/FELLOW ARTICLES
YATOM and the importance of working with the Jewish community
A Jewish Adoption Journey
Do other people take on both IVF and foster care at the same time?
Exposing Our Lives to Grow Our Family Through Adoption
Jewish parents looking to adopt face unique challenges
Letters to the Editor: A Fostering Story
Jewish adoption is a possibility for my family because of YATOM
When A Childs Village Is Missing
Fostering Baby T
G-d’s Blessing Comes with Caring for Widows and Orphans
Do You Know Your Path? I Do (I Think)
Halfway Through Adoption...?
There Aren’t Many Jewish Foster Parents. This Group Is Trying To Change That.
A Jewish Adoption Journey
Do other people take on both IVF and foster care at the same time?
Exposing Our Lives to Grow Our Family Through Adoption
Jewish parents looking to adopt face unique challenges
Letters to the Editor: A Fostering Story
Jewish adoption is a possibility for my family because of YATOM
When A Childs Village Is Missing
Fostering Baby T
G-d’s Blessing Comes with Caring for Widows and Orphans
Do You Know Your Path? I Do (I Think)
Halfway Through Adoption...?
There Aren’t Many Jewish Foster Parents. This Group Is Trying To Change That.
GENERAL PRESS
Times of Israel - June 2025
These factors and many others mean that children continue to fall into the foster care system. On any given day in America, there are approximately 400,000 children in foster care. Many of these children cannot be reunified with their families, leaving 108,000 children in foster care currently eligible for adoption; they will wait an average of three years for a placement.
Given all this, many of us feel an urgent call to support vulnerable children in our communities. Here are five ways you can support the children who need it most.
These factors and many others mean that children continue to fall into the foster care system. On any given day in America, there are approximately 400,000 children in foster care. Many of these children cannot be reunified with their families, leaving 108,000 children in foster care currently eligible for adoption; they will wait an average of three years for a placement.
Given all this, many of us feel an urgent call to support vulnerable children in our communities. Here are five ways you can support the children who need it most.
eJewishPhilanthropy - March 2024
If we pay attention to the Hebrew Bible, we’re hit with constant reminders to care for the yatom, the vulnerable child. We’re told: “Uphold the rights of the vulnerable child” (Isaiah 1:17).
If we pay attention to the Hebrew Bible, we’re hit with constant reminders to care for the yatom, the vulnerable child. We’re told: “Uphold the rights of the vulnerable child” (Isaiah 1:17).
Times of Israel - January 2023
"For children who require foster care, all of life is an unimaginable challenge. Their immediate families, for one reason or another, have failed them, leaving them to rely on the kindness of strangers in a system that, despite all its efforts, leaves those who age out of the system at 18 with a high likelihood of ending up unhoused, imprisoned or a victim of human trafficking."
"For children who require foster care, all of life is an unimaginable challenge. Their immediate families, for one reason or another, have failed them, leaving them to rely on the kindness of strangers in a system that, despite all its efforts, leaves those who age out of the system at 18 with a high likelihood of ending up unhoused, imprisoned or a victim of human trafficking."
Phoenix New Times - April 2022
Arizona's New Adoption Law Sparks Outcry
"The idea that one should have the religious freedom to discriminate against other religions seems like a strange perversion,” Phoenix Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz told Phoenix New Times. “The most important thing is that children are put in the best homes, not the most Christian homes.”
Arizona's New Adoption Law Sparks Outcry
"The idea that one should have the religious freedom to discriminate against other religions seems like a strange perversion,” Phoenix Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz told Phoenix New Times. “The most important thing is that children are put in the best homes, not the most Christian homes.”
An Orthodox Jewish multiracial family in Montana wants to break taboos about adoption
Jewish foster and adoption group launches first local cohort
Adoption, foster fellowship names second cohort
YATOM and the importance of working within the Jewish community
Seeing Racism Through My Black and Brown Children's Eyes
How Fostering Children is Uprooting My Unconscious Racism
Adoption Delays Causing Silent Suffering
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz (Founder of YATOM) Can't Stop Giving
Russians Rally Against Adoption Ban in a Revival of Anti-Kremlin Protests
Vulnerable Children Are Counting on Us But are We Counting on Them?
Russian Adoption Ban Brings Uncertainty and Outrage
Why I'm Marching In Washington DC
Words of Wisdom on Adoption
How To Optimize Your Home for a Beloved Foster or Adopted Child
Ritual for Miscarriage, Healing and New Life
The Pregnant Father Ponders
Jewish foster and adoption group launches first local cohort
Adoption, foster fellowship names second cohort
YATOM and the importance of working within the Jewish community
Seeing Racism Through My Black and Brown Children's Eyes
How Fostering Children is Uprooting My Unconscious Racism
Adoption Delays Causing Silent Suffering
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz (Founder of YATOM) Can't Stop Giving
Russians Rally Against Adoption Ban in a Revival of Anti-Kremlin Protests
Vulnerable Children Are Counting on Us But are We Counting on Them?
Russian Adoption Ban Brings Uncertainty and Outrage
Why I'm Marching In Washington DC
Words of Wisdom on Adoption
How To Optimize Your Home for a Beloved Foster or Adopted Child
Ritual for Miscarriage, Healing and New Life
The Pregnant Father Ponders
JEWISH ARTICLES
A forgotten mitzvah: Jews should support the Adoption Tax Credit!
YATOM and the importance of working within the Jewish community
G-d Is A Foster Parent
What is Our Jewish Community Doing for Vulnerable Children?
Exposing Our Lives to Grow Our Family Through Adoption
The Jewish Imperative for Child Adoption
The Mitzvah Of Adoption, Orphans In Russia And The Baal Shem Tov
When Jewish Parents Look To Adoption, They Face More Than the Usual Considerations
“STUCK”—The Unnecessary Pains of International Adoption
Funny, You Don't Look Jewish: The Story of Transracial Adoption
The Adoption and Jewish Identity Project
Spotlight On Flawed International Adoption System
Jewish Couples Speak Out About Adoption: The compelling "option" of Adoption. Repairing the world one orphan at a time.
Meet a Mom Who Takes Care of People's Babies While They Make Huge Parenting Decisions.
Between Purim and Pesach: Reflections of an Adoptive Mom
Flexibility & Facilitation: The Case of Adoption in Jewish Law
Finding Personal and Jewish Significance in "This Is Us"
Jewish Adoption Embraces the World
Welcoming Ceremony for an Adopted Child
There Are Children Who Need Us
Putting Foster Children on the Jewish Communal Agenda
Adoption in the Jewish Community
YATOM and the importance of working within the Jewish community
G-d Is A Foster Parent
What is Our Jewish Community Doing for Vulnerable Children?
Exposing Our Lives to Grow Our Family Through Adoption
The Jewish Imperative for Child Adoption
The Mitzvah Of Adoption, Orphans In Russia And The Baal Shem Tov
When Jewish Parents Look To Adoption, They Face More Than the Usual Considerations
“STUCK”—The Unnecessary Pains of International Adoption
Funny, You Don't Look Jewish: The Story of Transracial Adoption
The Adoption and Jewish Identity Project
Spotlight On Flawed International Adoption System
Jewish Couples Speak Out About Adoption: The compelling "option" of Adoption. Repairing the world one orphan at a time.
Meet a Mom Who Takes Care of People's Babies While They Make Huge Parenting Decisions.
Between Purim and Pesach: Reflections of an Adoptive Mom
Flexibility & Facilitation: The Case of Adoption in Jewish Law
Finding Personal and Jewish Significance in "This Is Us"
Jewish Adoption Embraces the World
Welcoming Ceremony for an Adopted Child
There Are Children Who Need Us
Putting Foster Children on the Jewish Communal Agenda
Adoption in the Jewish Community