The Cost of Love: Why Little Rivkah—and Six Other Jewish Babies—Are Still Waiting for a Home

Edited by: TJVNews.com

In a world where we speak so often of kindness, inclusion, and the value of every life, it is a heartbreaking reality that seven Jewish babies, all with special needs, are lying in hospitals and care facilities instead of being held in the arms of parents who long to love them. Why? Because of money.

Take Rivkah, for example. A baby girl with Down Syndrome, she has already touched the hearts of Sarah and Yossi, a warm, frum couple who are ready and eager to welcome her into their home. Their hearts are open, their arms are waiting, their home is ready. But Rivkah remains in the hospital—not because of medical need, but because of the overwhelming financial cost of adoption.

And she’s not alone. Six other Jewish babies, all with families ready to raise them in Torah-filled homes, remain in limbo. These are not unwanted children. Quite the opposite. Each one has been matched with loving, committed adoptive parents. But they’re trapped behind a barrier that no baby should ever face: legal fees, medical expenses, and thousands of dollars in adoption costs.

A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight

As reported in a moving campaign featured on The Chesed Fund, this crisis is unfolding right now within our own community.

Sussie Weiss and her team at Branches Adoption Network have made it their mission to help ensure that Jewish children—especially those with special needs—are never left behind. For years, they’ve worked tirelessly to help birth parents keep their children whenever possible. But when that option is no longer on the table, they step in to ensure that every baby is matched with a frum, loving home.

Their work is sacred. Their success stories are countless. But right now, they’re facing an impossible bottleneck: the rising cost of adoption is keeping children in limbo, away from the families who want to love and care for them as their own.

What’s Standing in the Way?

Adoption is a beautiful, complex process—but it is also expensive. Legal paperwork, court fees, home studies, agency costs, medical expenses—these can total tens of thousands of dollars, even before the baby comes home. Most of the families stepping up to adopt are not wealthy. They are average frum families whose motivation is not financial gain, but spiritual responsibility and deep love.

These families are prepared to provide a life of Torah, warmth, education, and unconditional love. They are ready to say yes to children that others may turn away. But they can’t do it alone.

A Call to the Community: This Is Our Responsibility

In the Jewish community, we pride ourselves on the mitzvah of chessed, on never turning our backs on those in need—especially our most vulnerable. There is perhaps no greater act of compassion than helping to bring a child home to a family that will love them, raise them in Torah, and give them the chance to thrive.

When you donate to this campaign, you are not just giving charity. You are performing a life-changing mitzvah. You are turning potential tragedy into joy. You are taking part in a miracle.

And that miracle’s name might just be Rivkah.

The Power of Your Gift

Every dollar given goes directly toward helping cover the legal and logistical costs that are preventing these adoptions from moving forward. There is no bureaucracy here. There is no red tape. There is only a clear and urgent need—and a powerful opportunity to make a real difference.

By contributing, you are helping to:

Finalize adoption paperwork

Pay for legal representation

Cover medical and hospital fees

Ensure each child goes to a stable, Torah-observant home

You are helping to write a new story for a child who has already been through too much.

This Is More Than Tzedakah. It’s Redemption.

These are not abstract statistics. These are Jewish babies, created b’tzelem Elokim, with souls that deserve to shine, not be tucked away in institutional care. They deserve Shabbos candles. They deserve to be sung to sleep with Shema. They deserve to be part of a home where mitzvos are the rhythm of daily life.

And they already have those homes waiting. All that’s missing is the support to get them there.

Will You Be the One?

This is our chance. Right now. Today. We can help bring Rivkah home. We can help six other families finally hold the child they have prayed for. We can show the world what it means to truly value life—every life.

Click here to donate now: https://thechesedfund.com/branchesadoptionnetwork/little-miracles-down-syndrome-adoption-campaign?aff=vinarticle

This is a mitzvah that lasts forever.

This is chessed in its purest form.

This is our moment to say: no Jewish child will be left behind.

Let’s bring them home—together.