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Rabbi Address’s blog includes reflections on the challenges and joys of aging and their implications for our families.

March 31, 2020 0

Passover 2020: Pandemic, Patience and Hope

This is no April fool! This is serious stuff, maybe the most serious in decades. ” Next Year In Jerusalem” will still echo in countless homes. Yet, the echo [Read more...]

March 26, 2020 0

Plague: Guest Post from Rabbi Gustav Buchdahl

A new guest contributor, Rabbi Gustav Buchdahl, discusses Jewish thinking about coping with disasters and catastrophes. [Read more...]

March 19, 2020 0

TELE-MEDICINE AND MEDICARE PATIENTS

Shalom: As we have many Medicare eligible people who come to jewishsacredaging.com and our Facebook page, I sought out some advice from my doctor about the tele-medicine [Read more...]

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). (CDC Photo/Alissa Eckert, MS, Dan Higgins, MAMS)

March 16, 2020 2

Guest Commentary: COVID-19 pandemic no laughing matter

Guest contributor Marc Blesoff offers some suggestions on how to cope with emotional and physical stress during the coronavirus shutdown. [Read more...]

David's Star (Patrick Lentz photo via Flickr.com, Creative Commons license.)

March 7, 2020 2

Purim: Unmasking Our Jewish Soul

Esther become queen and, through circumstances, affirms her Jewish identity. The plot to destroy us is unmasked; evil is vanquished and good reigns. Oh yes, and the end of [Read more...]

February 10, 2020 0

Tu’Bishvat: Our Roots and Our History

Tu’Bishvat, the new year of the trees, is a festival and celebration that has enjoyed renewed popularity in recent years. Tied often to the environment, it helps raise [Read more...]

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory)

January 27, 2020 0

Unfinished Business

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory) Rabbi Address’s Note: Alden Solovy, the [Read more...]

Spiral Jetty, United States. Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

January 20, 2020 0

MLK Day 2020: Looking Back and Looking Ahead?

It is amazing, when you think about it, what Boomers have seen in our lifespan. Our journey has been punctuated by so many tragic and overwhelming events. Assassinations have [Read more...]

December 30, 2019 2

For 2020: Collecting Pieces of Time

Happy 2020. This new decade kind of snuck up on me. The year end shows on TV began reviewing the decade the other day and it got me to thinking that this decade swept by so [Read more...]

Eighth Night Menorah (Scazon Photo/Flickr.com, under Creative Commons License)

December 22, 2019 2

Happy Channukah: The Dreidel of Randomness

Tis the season! As families gather to light the Menorah, engage Latkes and sufganyot, no doubt many will take out the collections of dreidels and take on a lively game. [Read more...]

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