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Thank you, Mr. Rogers!
The 15th day of the Hebrew month of Av, also known as Tu B’Av, is the Jewish holiday of love. As part of these Days of Awe, last week Oak Park Temple showed a movie [Read more…]
conscious aging
Reflections on Aging
Seeing What is Most Real in the Midst of What is Most Familiar
I’m reading a book written by David Brooks titled The Second Mountain. In it, Brooks discusses the difference between a career and a vocation. He writes that in the vocation mentality one is not living [Read more…]
Talmud Torah
Aging in prison: An ‘invisible’ group
Editor’s Note: This guest post is from Marc Blesoff, who facilitates aging workshops in several prisons. The United States has the largest prison population in the world. According to Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar, “…while sentencing [Read more…]