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Jewish Sacred Aging

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Crab Nebula: A Star's Spectacular Death (NASA, Chandra, 10/24/06)
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Too Many Deaths?

October 22, 2024 Reb Carl Viniar 1

Reb Carl Viniar examines the increasingly important role death plays in life as we grow older. [Read more…]

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Is this our moment?

July 21, 2024 Reb Carl Viniar 6

Reb Carl Viniar comments on the heated rhetoric inflaming our political process. [Read more…]

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Is Political Discussion Bad for the Synagogue?

May 5, 2024 Reb Carl Viniar 2

Reb Carl Viniar discusses the touchy issue of political debate in the synagogue. [Read more…]

From the Sun with Love
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Love is All You Need

January 7, 2024 Reb Carl Viniar 3

Reb Carl Viniar muses on the difficult conversations we’re having about antisemitism and looks for a way to express love and hope. [Read more…]

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Eeyore and Job (and a Little Debbie)   

December 11, 2023 Reb Carl Viniar 3

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and Reb Carl Viniar’s wife Debbie inform his efforts to get through these difficult times. [Read more…]

Masada National Park, , Israel - Wednesday November 30, 2011, Copyright º Steve Lubetkin (stevelubetkinphotography.com). Used by permission.
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Musings on Israel, October 9, 2023

October 9, 2023 Reb Carl Viniar 6

Reb Carl Viniar, a Jewish Sacred Aging contributing writer and rabbinic pastor from Voorhees, NJ, is currently traveling in the Middle East. He filed this story from his hotel room in Jordan. [Read more…]

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Seeing Things and Making Choices

August 22, 2023 Reb Carl Viniar 2

Reb Carl Viniar writes about the choice God offers in Deuteronomy 30:19. [Read more…]

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Whenever I feel afraid

July 16, 2023 Reb Carl Viniar 0

Reb Carl Viniar writes about some of the fears that besiege us in this modern age — and how to face them powerfully. [Read more…]

Reb Carl's Column

When do I stop watching coming attractions?

May 9, 2023 Reb Carl Viniar 1

I have been absent for a while. I thought when I stopped practicing law and mediation, and completed ordination, I would have lots of time to write, and exercise and play. None of that has [Read more…]

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Do you believe in magic?

February 5, 2023 Reb Carl Viniar 0

Rabbinic Pastor Carl Viniar writes about the experience of his ordination ceremony in a time of COVID. [Read more…]

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  • May 10: Kol Ami, Cherry Hill, NJ
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  • May 2: Julie Ketover, life coach on life transitions as we age
  • May 9: Rabbi Yiscah Smith on her new book, Planting Seeds of the Divine
  • May 16: Connie Zweig on the revisions of her books, Romancing The Shadow and Meeting The Shadow, and the role of the "shadow" in aging work
  • May 23: Matt Field and Audrey Friedland from "Right At Home" on home health care issues, costs, access
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