12/21/2025
Meet Joelle Bohadana, Events and Awareness Director at PUAH.
“I met a couple just before the husband was about to start chemo. As they were figuring out what came next, they were told that freezing s***m wasn’t an option—because they already had children.
When they told me, I went quiet. Not because anyone meant harm, but because I couldn’t stop thinking: there was more to ask.
Fertility halacha lives in the gray. It’s deeply nuanced, and one answer without the full picture can change everything.
This is where PUAH comes in. Our Rabbanim live in this space—seeing hundreds of cases, every diagnosis, every new technology—constantly weighing how Torah and medicine work together.
I wish more couples knew that halacha isn’t there to close doors. Sometimes it’s what opens them. Sometimes there are paths you never knew existed—until someone who understands the nuances shows you the way.”
