
AGEISM: A Public Health Issue
Marc Blessoff writes that Jewish Tradition commands us to respect our bodies and to strive for health as a means of honoring our relationship to God. It’s a mitzvah to be healthy and well. [Read more…]
Marc Blessoff writes that Jewish Tradition commands us to respect our bodies and to strive for health as a means of honoring our relationship to God. It’s a mitzvah to be healthy and well. [Read more…]
In this d’var excerpt, Chaplain Barry Pitegoff reminds us of the blessing, “May you be like a tree of the field.” [Read more…]
No matter how self-centered we try to be, we represent a community, says Chaplain Barry Pitegoff, BCC, in this d’var Torah on Parsha Naso. [Read more…]
Chaplain Barry Pitegoff reflects on the healing that our communities need in the postelection period. [Read more…]
Rabbi Susan Elkodsi notices that while the Torah loves genealogies, up until this week’s parashah, Vayechi, the Torah is silent about any actual relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. [Read more…]
Rabbi David Levin writes about his experience extending chaplaincy care in Pittsburgh as part of the American Red Cross support team, following the shootings at the Tree of Life Synagogue there. [Read more…]
Editor’s Note: Rabbi Peter Grumbacher frequently shares the story of his father’s Holocaust experience. He contributes this guest commentary as we approach the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Nazis attacked the Jewish community across Germany. [Read more…]
As we try to process all that has happened in the past week, we are left in a state of shock and sadness at the level of hatred that has been let loose in our [Read more…]
Editor’s Note: This essay by Rabbi Steven G. Sager is reposted with permission from Sichaconversation.org. “I want my kids to say Kaddish for me after I die, but I can’t explain to them why, or what Kaddish means to me. [Read more…]
Have you ever given much thought to the fact that each one of us is a one-of-a-kind, an only, rare, unique and exclusive individual that exists nowhere else on this planet? If you put it [Read more…]
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