Explore the profound parallels between Moses, the Passover story and the adoptee experience. This post explores the sobering realization of the distance between worlds when an adoptee’s Jewish identity and a birth mother’s faith do not align. Drawing on the story of Moses, Dr. David McCarty-Caplan offers reflections on maintaining personal authenticity and healing through community while staying present in the complex, radical act of love that is reunion.

Jewish young professionals organization NuRoots interviewed our founder.