Reflections on Aging
Forty-Five Years
Mark Pinzur reflects on the juxtaposition of his cancer treatment and the High Holy Days. [Read more…]
cancer
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Dr. Jeffrey Cohn discusses his life coaching practice for people with cancer and other serious illnesses, on the Seekers of Meaning Podcast
Dr. Jeffrey Cohn, a retired oncologist, discusses his new venture, Care to Change Coaching, providing life-coaching for patients and their caregivers facing cancer and other serious illnesses, on this week’s Seekers of Meaning Podcast. [Read more…]
Resource Articles
Resource for Downloading: Cancer Meditations for Your Passover Seder 2018
Rabbi Benjamin David prepared a set of meditations on cancer that can be used as part of your Seder. Rabbi David, a cancer survivor, has given Jewish Sacred Aging® permission to reprint these meditations. Rabbi [Read more…]
Talmud Torah
Rabbi Ben David’s Yom Kippur Sermon 2016
So much has happened since 1976. Think about it for a minute. Think about how different life was for you and for your family forty years ago. Maybe you were a young parent. Forty years [Read more…]
Carole's Corner
The Gift
It wasn’t something I needed or wanted. Not something I secretly admired. It did not come wrapped in pretty paper. And it was not tied with a lovely bow. It was, in fact, rather ugly. [Read more…]
Care-Giving Concerns
To Hospice or Not to Hospice?
I want to begin this essay with an acknowledgment: I believe hospice performs extraordinary work in life’s final stage. I know that hospice care varies from place to place, but I personally have never seen [Read more…]
Care-Giving Concerns
Caregiving for beginners
Editor’s Note: Cameron is husband to Heather Von St. James, survivor advocate for the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance, and father to Lily Rose. He, along with Heather and young Lily, had their world’s turned upside down [Read more…]
Reflections on Aging
A message from ‘Bill’: My Story, My Journey, My Legacy
Editor’s Note: “Bill” has made a choice to forego additional treatment in his battle with cancer. A 50 something man, he accepted the invitation of jewishsacredaging.com to write his story. He agreed to share what [Read more…]
Jewish Baby Boomers
Sometimes the Third Ear Actually Works
This past week I visited a youngish middle-aged woman in the hospital. She had waged war against breast cancer for three difficult, trying years and finally, after genetic testing, decided that a double mastectomy was [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Jewish Sacred Aging Podcast #6: A conversation with Rabbi Douglas Kohn about Judaism, Cancer, Alzheimer’s
In this program, Podcast #6 in our series, Rabbi Address chats with Rabbi Douglas Kohn of Congregation Emanu El, Redlands, CA about his two books, Life, Faith, and Cancer, about his own battle with cancer, [Read more…]