Israel and Me, Growing Together
Rabbi Susan Elkodsi reflects on her most recent trip to Israel, the changes and accomplishments of the country, and changes in her own life. [Read more...]
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Father Time and Me
I saw him approaching. An ancient man, bent, dressed in black and carrying the symbolic scythe. I recognized him immediately. My heart pounded. It’s too soon, I [Read more...]
Time…Oy Vey, Where is IT and Where did IT Go?
Approaching: 2018…how does that resonate with you? Make you shudder? Make you wonder where all the years have gone? Make you leery/apprehensive/disbelieving that it [Read more...]
BGR 8/30/16: Virgil Hoftiezer and Alan Spector on Retirement
The guests on the August 30, 2016 Boomer Generation Radio are Dr. Virgil Hoftiezer, retired Associate Director and Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Indiana University [Read more...]
A Whack of Humility
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his year was the first time in a long time that I did not lead services on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Having recently left my chaplaincy [Read more...]
Backwards and Forwards: a pre-Rosh Hashanah commentary
Don’t say, “How is it that times past were better than these?” For it is not wise of you to ask that question. (Kohelet/Ecclesiastes [7:10]) Although we won’t be [Read more...]
Guest Post: How to Grow Old With Gusto
Editor’s Note: Gail Zugerman, author of this contribution to JSA, is founder of GRF Marketing, Ltd., based in Chicago since 1983, has provided marketing strategy [Read more...]
Try to remember that day in November…
There is, perhaps, no greater marker to the first wave of Boomers than November 22, 1963. It was out generation’s “I remember where I was when….” [Read more...]
Gently into that Good Night
I have never thought much about the end of life. I once knew a psychotherapist who would not discuss the subject, its power so frightening that she decompensated when anyone [Read more...]
Carly Simon was right: These are ‘the good old days’
Let me be up front and say that I enjoy Woody Allen films. That being said, let me urge you to drop what you may be doing and go out and see his new one, Midnight in [Read more...]
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