Jewish Adoption Links List - a work in progress.

AGENCIES/ GROUPS:

Jewish Adoption FAQs - a good place to start - a page at the JCCA website.

Ametz Adoption - a program of the JCCA in New York. Although they do not provide adoption placement, they do homestudies, post-adoption services and other support. They do seem to provide some type of referral service to adoption attorneys if you're interested in going that route.

Adoption and the Jewish Family - a list of brochures and guidebooks available through Ametz.

Stars of David - An information and support network. Find (or perhaps start) a chapter near you!

A.T.I.M.E - A Torah Infertility Medium of Exchange. This organization focuses mostly on infertility support, spiritual guidance and information through a Jewish lense, although lately has been adding more information on adoption.

WEBSITES/ ARTICLES:

Jewish Adoption - a general overview by Rabbi Michael Gold, author of And Hannah Wept: Infertility, Adoption and the Jewish Couple.

InterfaithFamily.com on Adoption - A good resource for previously published articles on the subject of Jewish adoptive families.

Article from the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California - "Rabbi probes issues around non-Jewish adoption" by Karen Koenig. "As increasing numbers of American Jews adopt children of non-Jewish backgrounds and ethnicities, "our children are redefining who and what Jews are," according to Reform Rabbi Yoel Kahn."

LIST-SERVS/ ONLINE GROUPS:

Jewish Adoption List-serv - Jewish-Adoption-List
By and for Jews who have adopted children or are thinking about or working on adoption. Intermittantly active.
To Join: Send the message: SUBCRIBE JEWISH-ADOPTION-LIST FirstName LastName (with your first and last names) to this address LISTSERV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Moderator: Roberta Ferdschneider robyf@aol.com

Jewish Families with Children from China - JFWCC - A support group to celebrate holidays and milestones in our children's lives and to discuss issues related to their dual heritage. A Moderately active Yahoo group.

BOOKS:

AdoptionShop.com - This site has a few books of interest on the subject of Jewish adoption and Jewish issues in general.