Menachem Burstein This is Me

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1. 1. www.jstandard.com

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   a-baby Rabbi Menachem Burstein, director of the Puah Institute in Jerusalem, counsels a couple dealing with infertility.

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   Rabbi Menachem Burstein, Chairman, Puah Institute, Jerusalem, Israel

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   According to the institute's estimates, Puah is involved in about 1,500 births a year -- not bad for an organization that started in the living room of its founder, Rabbi Menachem Burstein, in 1990.
   
   Burstein had been asked by one of Israel's chief rabbis at the time to research the issue of fertility treatments and what might be possible under halachah.
   
   Puah now has a four-story office in Jerusalem and a staff of about 70 people in Israel, the United States, France and Australia. The organization gets by on donations, mostly from contributors in Israel.
   
   Burstein, an outgoing man with a long salt-and-pepper beard, was born in Uruguay. His office, like many of the other offices in the center, has photos of babies whose parents used Puah's services.
   
   Burstein is quick to speak of some of his more challenging cases, including a bride-to-be who found out shortly before her wedding day that she did not have a womb.
   
   Realizing the engagement might be broken off, the rabbi called a wealthy relative of the young woman the family told him of and asked him to provide enough money to cover the cost of two pregnancies by a surrogate mother. The relative complied and the recently married couple is planning to use a surrogate mother to begin their family.
   
   "I'm happy I have been able to find a synthesis between halachah and the practical world," Burstein said.