Bubble, Bubble, COVID Trouble
Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny makes her Jewish Sacred Aging debut as a contributor with an essay about missing the security of a COVID-19 bubble. [Read more...]
bereavement
Be Culturally Radical: Live As If You Are Dying
Reb Simcha Raphael provides some reflections on Yizkor. [Read more...]
JSA Podcast 2016-15: Rabbi Simcha Raphael, Part 1, on Death, Dying, and Bereavement
In this edition of the Jewish Sacred Aging podcast, Rabbi Address welcomes Rabbi Simcha Raphael, Ph.D., director of the Da’at Institute, for the first part of a two-part [Read more...]
What’s Meant to Be? The Randomness of Chaos? G-d’s Will? Or Is There No Answer….
Sunday was a different day for our family. It was the only day my Dad didn’t work, except for Easter Sunday, Father’s Day and the Sundays from Thanksgiving through [Read more...]
Recommended book: The Grief Journey and the Afterlife: Jewish Pastoral Care for Bereavement
This book synthesizes an understanding of traditional Jewish rituals of death and mourning, with contemporary psychological perspectives on grief and bereavement. In [Read more...]
Presence is an active, not passive, activity
Often we think of “being present” for the other as being available to hear them and be with them. We say we reach out to them but in reality, we are offering to wait [Read more...]
Toni Griffith, grief counselor, is September 10 guest on Boomer Generation Radio
Toni Griffith, a Philadelphia area grief counselor, is the September 10 guest on Rabbi Address’ weekly radio show, “Boomer Generation [Read more...]
Reaching out to others can be profound and meaningful
I vividly remember that September night in 1987. We had left the hospital earlier that evening knowing that the end was near. The hospital called a few hours later to let [Read more...]
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