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This week, Rabbi Address chats with Cantor Rhoda Harrison and Rabbi Barbara Symons about the new CCAR Press book, Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah. Rabbi Symons is editor of the book and Cantor Harrison [Read more...] -
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, retired Cherry Hill, NJ, physician Ed Skobac discusses his project creating a documentary about his father’s experience surviving the Holocaust. [Read more…] -
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Rabbi Dr. Danny Schiff discusses his new book, Judaism in a Digital Age: An Ancient Tradition Confronts a Transformative Era. [Read more…] -
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, information technology executive Scott Kushner describes his experience embracing prayer and ritual as part of a mental health recovery exercise. [Read more…] -
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Rabbis Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky discuss their forthcoming book, Heroes with Chutzpah, featuring biographical profiles of outstanding Jewish figures from [Read more...]
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This is a festive week for us. Shavuot arrives and with it a renewed focus on law, the 10 Commandments and the idea and ideal of Revelation. This issue is at the heart of [Read more...] -
There has been an increasing amount of conversation recently regarding the need for Boomers and our children to engage in conversation about our caregiving and end of life wishes. I just participated in a [Read more...] -
There is no doubt that the contemporary Jewish world is undergoing major shifts. The Judaism of our youth, from synagogue life to rituals to demographics, is in the midst of radical transition. Another example [Read more...] -
This is a highly personal season, this Passover week. The readings in the Hagaddah, the Torah, and Haftara portions, I suggest, lend themselves to a sense of the transcendent and the possibility of transition [Read more...] -
Well, it has finally come to this! In the late 1980s, Wade Clark Roof published his seminal “Generation of Seekers” as an examination of the growth of the Baby Boom generation. At the dawn [Read more...]
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For Chaplain Barry Pitegoff, BCC, Parsha Naso is about giving, receiving, and sensing dignity. [Read more…] -
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Professor and spiritual director Tom Cole discusses the Jewish approach to angels, or messengers from God. [Read more…] -
Rabbi Holly Cohn is a hospice chaplain in Texas and wrote this as part of her class on Aging that is part of Wurzweiler School of Social Work’s Certificate in Gerontology and Palliative Care that [Read more...] -
JSA Contributor Larry Rosenberg tells the story of his life’s gay struggle in detail, and weaves in Jewish, intellectual and aging dimensions along the way. [Read more…] -
Commentary on turning 80 from Larry Rosenberg, a JSA contributor in Florida who has created musical and inspirational shows based on his life experience. [Read more…]
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Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, author of the “Martini Judaism” column, offers a prayer for actor Bruce Willis, who is facing a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. [Read more…]
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On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Jewish Sacred Aging contributing writer Carole Leskin discusses the challenges of “solo aging,” growing old without a spouse, partner, or close family [Read more...] -
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I have been absent for a while. I thought when I stopped practicing law and mediation, and completed ordination, I would have lots of time to write, and exercise and play. None of that has [Read more...] -
Rabbinic Pastor Carl Viniar writes about the experience of his ordination ceremony in a time of COVID. [Read more…] -
Rabbinic Pastor Reb Carl Viniar looks at family dysfunction in Genesis, with particular focus on the Joseph Story in Parsha Vayigash. [Read more…] -
Reb Carl Viniar writes about the scarcity of civility in our social discourse today. [Read more…] -
Reb Carl Viniar writes about the kinds of tests we might face in unexpected places and for unexpected reasons. [Read more…]
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