What’s Next for Jews in America?
Editor’s Note: Rabbi Peter Grumbacher frequently shares the story of his father’s Holocaust experience. He contributes this guest commentary as we approach the [Read more...]
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Rabbi Address’s blog includes reflections on the challenges and joys of aging and their implications for our families.
After Pittsburgh: A Call To Service For Baby Boomers?
It has been just a little over a week. One Shabbat has come and gone since Pittsburgh. The vigils are over. The Shabbat of Solidarity has passed. As I sat with my family and [Read more...]
Guest Essay: Taharot in Pittsburgh
Editor’s Note: Alden Solovy writes the “To Bend Light” blog, where this essay originally appeared. He gave Jewish Sacred Aging permission to reprint it [Read more...]
The Power of Faith Revisited and Re-affirmed
Conferences can be exciting and energizing. They are also opportunities to have some basic beliefs validated. These last two weeks I have had the pleasure of participating in [Read more...]
It Is Not Good To Be Alone: A Challenge For This New Year
It is no coincidence, I think, that so many colleagues, during this past High Holiday season, referenced the Mr Rogers documentary. It was a wonderful film that reminded us [Read more...]
Economics Of Aging Staring Us In The Face
Two recent articles in the New York Times should have gotten Boomers interest up. Caught in the midst of the SCOTUS upheaval, they may have fallen by the wayside. On [Read more...]
Sukkot/Simchat Torah: A Prayer to Celebrate Life’s Harvest-“Simchat Hochmah”
Chag Sameach! The festival of Sukkot is upon us and with it, the symbolic Sukkah, Lulav and Etrog and the sweetness of what was, in the agricultural beginnings of our [Read more...]
Rosh Hoshonnah-Yom Kippur- 5779: That We May See The Good
Shannah Tovah. We begin now the new year 5779. We cannot know, as the Unetaneh Tokef reminds us, what we shall experience in this next year. Each of us will stand before our [Read more...]
You Are Invited To Explore The Challenges of Advanced Illness and Caregiving
On October 9-11, 2018, in Denver, hundreds of concerned activists will gather for the annual summit of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). Get more info here. [Read more...]
The Sands of Time and Transitions.
Forgive the personal riff. It is Sunday the 19th and I just returned home from a drive I have been making for some 55 years. In June of 1963 I got in my car to drive to be a [Read more...]
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