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Cheers to school days off (and that’s coming from moms and dads)!

Faygie HoltMarch 7, 2019

Looming on the horizon is spring break, which varies in school districts all over America, with some that fall later in April timed to Passover and some that start this month.

Children take part in a one-day camp held by Alaska Jewish Campus, which introduced the Jewish Camp Gan Israel adventure over the Martin Luther King Jr. and Presidents' Day holidays in Anchorage. Credit: Gan Izzy Alaska In-Service Day Winter Camps 2019.

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Jewish Agency to provide loans to employees seeking child surrogacy overseas

March 4, 2019

The loans will be available at preferential terms and low-interest rates up to NIS 40,000 ($11,000) per employee or emissary, and can be used at any point of the surrogacy process.

A reception held for gay fathers who recently returned from Thailand, where local surrogate women gave birth to their babies, Feb. 20, 2014. Photo by Gideon Markowicz/Flash90.

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