Baby Boomer Bubbe
Coming of Age … For Them or For Me?
Sandy Taradash reflects on the religious education and spiritual foundation her granddaughters received and how it affects the whole family. [Read more…]
Month: May 2021
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Josh Greene, author of “UNSTOPPABLE: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend”
Best-selling author Joshua Greene discusses his latest book, “UNSTOPPABLE: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend.” [Read more…]
D'vrei Torah
B’ha’a’lotecha (Numbers 8:1-12:16)…What Guides You?
This week’s portion is complex and varied. It spans the range from ritual (the second Passover) to the challenge of leadership (chapter 11) to the famous encounter with Aaron and Miriam and their challenge of [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Ellen Rittberg, Author of “Why is Grandma Naked? Caring for Your Aging Parent”
Ellen Rittberg, author of the book, “Why Is Grandma Naked? Caring for Your Aging Parent,” discusses the often stressful, sometimes weird, and ultimately life-transforming journey that caregiving is. [Read more…]
Living Longer-Living Better
Can Religion Provide Us Any Hope?
Like many of you, these past days have been filled with a sense of hopelessness. Between the events in the Middle-East, the continuing childish political theatre of Congress, the tragic relentless consequences of Covid and [Read more…]
D'vrei Torah
Guest D’var Torah Parsha Naso, 11 Sivan 5781: “You” Can Be A Plural
No matter how self-centered we try to be, we represent a community, says Chaplain Barry Pitegoff, BCC, in this d’var Torah on Parsha Naso. [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Judaism Unbound’s Daniel Libenson and Lex Rofeberg Reaching Out to ‘Disaffected But Hopeful’ American Jews
Daniel Libenson and Lex Rofeberg discuss Judaism Unbound, a project of the Institute for the Next Jewish Future, that catalyzes and supports grassroots efforts by “disaffected but hopeful” American Jews to re-imagine and re-design Jewish life in America for the 21st Century. Libenson and Rofeberg are the co-hosts of the Judaism Unbound podcast. [Read more…]
Living Longer-Living Better
A Shavuot of Transition
Shalom. We will greet the festival of Shavuot very soon. A time of celebration and, in many congregations, Confirmation. For many the festival is sort of an unofficial end of the program year. Or. at [Read more…]
D'vrei Torah
B’midbar (Numbers 1:1–4:20) The Wilderness..Help Us Find The Way!
We begin the fourth book, Numbers, B’Midbar! As we begin this book, our collective souls, weary after almost a year and a half of pandemic, cry out for strength. The news of our world shakes us and [Read more…]
JSA in the News
CORRECTED: Rabbi Address Speaking at World Union for Progressive Judaism Virtual Conference, May 20, 8 A.M. EDT
Rabbi Richard Address of Jewish Sacred Aging is speaking at the World Union for Progressive Judaism virtual conference, May 22 [Read more…]