Aliza Abrams Konig and Rabbi Ezra Schwartz

Aliza Abrams Konig is the chief of staff at the Yeshiva University Rabbi Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership. She is also the surrogacy consultant for I Was Supposed to Have a Baby, and runs a non-denominational Jewish support group over WhatsApp for people going through surrogacy. Rabbi Ezra Schwartz is a rosh yeshiva and associate director of RIETS, and the Harry Rabin Chair in Talmud and Jewish Law at Yeshiva University.

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Surrogacy: Much More Than Just A Journey

By Aliza Abrams Konig and Rabbi Ezra Schwartz

Beyond a greater pool to choose from, there are a few reasons for the preference of a non-Jewish surrogate. There is a well-known dispute about whom halacha considers the true mother.