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  • Michal Raucher featured on the podcast "Identity Crisis, " speaking on "How Jews Talk about Abortion"Raucher Square

    As the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the highest-profile legal challenge to Texas' new abortion law this week, Yehuda Kurtzer and Michal Raucher (Rutgers University) examine the Jewish communal conversation around abortion.

    Jews have historically been both pro-natalist and pro-choice. And that's not an obvious combination. How does this dichotomy manifest in attitudes, social policy, and legislation around issues of abortion in the U.S. and Israel? 

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