Reflections on Aging
Love and Loss in the Time of COVID
Rabbi Vicki Axe describes the experience of being caregiver to her husband Harold and coping with loss and mourning during the pandemic. [Read more…]
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Before Shiva
This is the first of a series of poems contributed to Jewish Sacred Aging by Sue Klau. Future poems will also appear as guest blog posts. [Read more…]
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Guest Blog Post: Kaddish during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Guest contributor Helene Zipkin describes her experience with the Kaddish prayer and its alternatives during the COVID pandemic. [Read more…]
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Reimagining Ritual in the Time of Covid-19
Rabbi David Levin discusses the importance of kavod v’nichum, the Jewish mitzvah of comforting the mourners, during the coronavirus pandemic. [Read more…]
Reflections on Aging
We Are the Ones God Sends
Rabbi Stephen Karol discusses the value of Yizkor, the service of remembrance, and our role comforting the bereaved — and ourselves. [Read more…]
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Sudden Death
“No matter how old we are, no matter how much experience we have had with death, it is sudden death that some people feel hits us the hardest,” writes Rabbi Stephen Karol about the untimely death of basketball great Kobe Bryant and eight others in a helicopter crash Jan. 26. [Read more…]
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“May God comfort you…” Upon Ending Shloshim For My Father
Editor’s Note: As Passover ends, we are again given the opportunity, in ritual fashion, for one of our tradition’s Yizkor services. To remember is a gift. This guest blog post for Pesach Yizkor is from [Read more…]
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On the Fifth Night Of Chanukah…Our Dog Died
Behold our menorah from the sixth day of Chanukah. Behold the third candle: snuffed way sooner than the others. At this season commemorating miracles, God performed another one. The shrunken candle spoke to me of [Read more…]
Reflections on Aging
The Third Yahrzeit Candle
Sharon Siegel confronts memory and meaning following the death of her father late last year. [Read more…]
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11/14/2017 JSA Radio: Rabbi Anne Brener, author of Mourning & Mitzvah, on creating caring communities
The guest is Rabbi Anne Brener, MAJCS, MA, LCSW , is a Los Angeles-based psychotherapist and spiritual director who has assisted institutions worldwide in creating caring communities. She is the author of Mourning and Mitzvah: [Read more…]