Rabbi Address’s blog includes reflections on the challenges and joys of aging and their implications for our families.
Rabbi Richard F. Address, founder and director of Jewish Sacred Aging, provided this video message as we begin the Rosh Hashanah holiday for 5783.
As the High Holydays approach, we invite you join us for a three-part series on theology that will post September 9, 16 and 23 on our Seekers of Meaning podcast/tv. You can access the [Read more…]
World Alzheimer’s Month is an international campaign to raise awareness around Alzheimer’s disease and all types of dementia that takes place each September. This year’s campaign highlights the importance of community support for families facing the challenges of dementia. [Read more…]
One of the more interesting challenges that face clergy is when an older adult couple presents themselves to discuss marriage. Are there different questions that need to be asked? Is the nature of the [Read more…]
Rabbi Dr. Steven Moss discusses the connection between Tisha B’av, which begins at sundown August 6, and Yom Kippur. [Read more…]
A few nights ago my wife and I were privileged to attend a performance of “To Kill A Mockingbird”. The book, published in 1960, has become a classic, as has the play and film [Read more…]
Some of the statistics are really attention getting. The 2020 Pew study of our community indicates that almost half of the American Jewish community is over 50 years of age. A quick look at population [Read more…]
In the last two years of my seminar training, 1970-1972, I was part of a small group of students at the Hebrew Union College (HUC) that were trained at a local church to provide [Read more…]
Happy Father’s Day! My dad died three decades ago and what is curious, as least to me, is the fact that as I get older, I hear him more and more. Maybe it is the [Read more…]
The festival of Shavuot draws its origins from our agricultural past. We are told to bring the “first fruits” of harvest in a pilgramage to the Temple. It is only later in our history that [Read more…]
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