Minna Scherlinder Morse

Minna Scherlinder Morse is a freelance editor and project manager who has devoted professional and volunteer energy in recent years to educating fellow Jews and others about racism, Jewish diversity and the complexity of adoption. She serves on the Jews of Color and Allies Advisory Committee of Reconstructing Judaism and facilitates an interdenominational support group, sponsored by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, for clergy and spouses in transracial adoption. She is also currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Jewish Ethics and Social Justice at the Jewish Theological Seminary, with a personal focus on adoption ethics. She is married to Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb (RRC ’97), mom to two great kids and part of a wonderful community at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda, Md.

Essays

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Questioning Easy Narratives: Exploring Adoption

October 27, 2021

Thirty years ago, as a single woman in my 20s, I had no reason to think that I’d one day adopt. Yet adoption somehow kept

Minna Scherlinder Morse

Essays

Questioning Easy Narratives: Exploring Adoption

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