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 Difficult Decisions: Issues of Conception, Adoption, and Abortion: April 5 at the Jack H. Skirball Campus at HUC-JIR/Los Angeles On April 5, 2011, from 12:10 pm to 1:10 pm, the Spiegel Seminar series at the Jack H. Skirball Campus at HUC-JIR/Los Angeles will host Difficult Decisions: Issues of Conception, Adoption, and Abortion. The topic is "I am pregnant, now what?" The Spiegel Seminar on Jewish Family Values, organized by HUC-JIR's Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health, is a series of seminars focused on topics related to Pastoral Care and Counseling most often seen as "stigmatized behaviors" that may not have been fully addressed in students' coursework.
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