A Chaplain’s Vayigash
Chaplain Barry Pitegoff reflects on Parsha Vayigash and its message for estranged families, especially when facing crises. [Read more...]
Talmud Torah
Israel and Me, Growing Together
Rabbi Susan Elkodsi reflects on her most recent trip to Israel, the changes and accomplishments of the country, and changes in her own life. [Read more...]
Modern Gender Theory Part 3
Part 3 of Rabbah Rona Matlow's discussion of Trans Theory and Judaism. [Read more...]
Trans Care Sex and Gender Theory
In the second of a series, Rabbah Rona Matlow expands on Trans Care and Gender Theory in a Jewish scriptural context. [Read more...]
Is Heaven for Real?
Having hope about life after death doesn’t have to come from a just-right-for-Easter book in the Christian section of Barnes and Noble, writes Rabbi Stephen Karol. That hope can also come from the prayers of Yizkor, from the Shabbat prayers that we read when you are at your Temple to observe a yahrzeit, and from the prayers of the funeral and burial services of Judaism. [Read more...]
An Introduction to Trans Care
In this first of a series of essays, Rabbah Rona Matlow describes a standard of care and compassion for transgender seniors. [Read more...]
A Rabbi Confronts Frontotemporal Dementia — “The cruelest disease you never hear of“
Rabbi and Cantor Vicki Axe recently stepped down as spiritual leader of Congregation Shir Ami in Greenwich, Connecticut, to care for her husband. She contributed this essay as a response to a segment on the CBS 60 Minutes program about Frontotemporal Dementia, the condition affecting her husband. [Read more...]
Sh’ma Now online magazine ceasing publication
Sh’ma Now magazine has announced that its 751st issue will be its last. Read the farewell letter from editor Susan Berrin here. You can download a PDF of the final [Read more...]
Your Unfinished Business
Chaplain Barry Pitegoff discusses the important "unfinished business" of end-of-life healthcare directives and the Jewish approach to an "ethical will." [Read more...]
Parshat Ha’azinu: Death of Moses in Torah and Midrash
Reb Simcha Raphael discusses the parsha Ha'azinu, Moses' death, and the promised land. [Read more...]
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