Talmud Torah
Toldot D’var Torah, New York Jewish Spiritual Care Collaborative, Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Chaplain Barry Pitegoff shares his thoughts on Parsha Toldot. [Read more…]
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Living Longer-Living Better
Guest Essay: Taharot in Pittsburgh
Editor’s Note: Alden Solovy writes the “To Bend Light” blog, where this essay originally appeared. He gave Jewish Sacred Aging permission to reprint it here. Solovy was a guest on the Seekers of Meaning Podcast in July. You [Read more…]
Talmud Torah
Meet Your Chaplain
Chaplain Barry Pitegoff, a new contributor to JewishSacredAging.com, discusses the role of the hospital chaplain in the caregiving process. [Read more…]
Talmud Torah
Morning Service: A Creative Ritual from Len Berman
Len Berman of Congregation M’kor Shalom in Cherry Hill, NJ shares a morning prayer service ritual that he uses. [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Live and Let Live…My Prayer for 2016
I awoke to the morning news As outrageous grief and fear grips an iconic city, any city, the world. I see images reminiscent to days of old That I am too young to know Yet [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
Guest Post from Sandy Taradash: Has the World Gone to Hell in a Hand Bag? Joan Rivers might say, “If it’s Gucci, that’s ok!”
A High Holiday Message… Sounds like a joke right out of Joan Rivers’ joke box. She always wanted us to laugh in spite of what we were dealing with, to show us we were not [Read more…]
D'vrei Torah
Sprituality and Aging – Commentary from Rabbi Lawrence Kotok
In beginning – I was asked this past year to participate in planning a conference on seniors and spirituality and then to offer the keynote address. Today I would like to share with you some [Read more…]
Reflections on Aging
Reflections on Aging
I am part of the generation born during WW II, who now look in the mirror and are startled by the realization that even we are aging. The youngest of us has already reached that [Read more…]
Care-Giving Concerns
The Spiritual Challenges of Caregiving
Can faith and community be powerful aids to those caring for an aging loved one? In honoring our “father and mother,” how do we honor ourselves? Can a deeper understanding of spirituality and aging result [Read more…]
D'vrei Torah
D’var Torah: When the truth is found to be lies: The Coen brothers’ Rorschach for serious people
I learned about Jewish spirituality in a yoga class in 1971. I lay prone on the carpeted floor, relaxing after achieving the challenging Bridge posture for the first time. I had thought that the pose’s [Read more…]