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Organization Programs for Boomers

A Blessing for Signing an Advanced Directive/Health Care Power of Attorney

November 22, 2020 Rabbi Richard Address 0

At the recent Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work conference on Spirituality at the End Life, we included the following blessing that was created by two students in a class on Longevity at HUC-JIR [Read more…]

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Saying Kaddish at Home — A Brief Meditation and Memorial Prayer

September 16, 2020 Rabbi Richard Address 0

Rabbi Richard F. Address, director of JewishSacredAging.com offers a virtual memorial service, El Molei Rachamim and the Mourner’s Kaddish. [Read more…]

Rabbi Ben David, left, poses with his newest book, Seven Days, Many Voices: Insights into the Biblical Story of Creation, while taping this podcast interview with Rabbi Richard Address in the Professional Podcasts studios at The Lubetkin Media Companies, Cherry Hill, NJ
Resource Articles

Resource for Downloading: Cancer Meditations for Your Passover Seder 2018

March 19, 2018 Webmaster 0

Rabbi Benjamin David prepared a set of meditations on cancer that can be used as part of your Seder. Rabbi David, a cancer survivor, has given Jewish Sacred Aging® permission to reprint these meditations. Rabbi [Read more…]

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Expanded Forms for Helping Have “The Conversation” About End of Life and Care Plans

April 29, 2016 Rabbi Richard Address 0

We are pleased to be able to make available to you an expanded series of forms, based on A Time to Prepare (Life Planning book) that will help guide you and your family through a [Read more…]

Couples and Ponds, By Jennie-O on Flickr.com, used via Creative Commons license.
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Rituals for Signing Advance Health Directive and Healthcare Proxy

November 23, 2015 Webmaster 0

One of the issues that keeps coming up in workshops on end of life issues and ritual creation, is the need for some ritual or prayer that can be said at the time we sign [Read more…]

David Zinner, executive director of Kavod v'Nichum, which provides training in Jewish funeral customs, is the guest on the August 1 episode of JSA-TV's "Conversations."
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Jewish Sacred Aging TV: David Zinner discusses funeral ritual training conducted by Gamliel Institute

August 1, 2014 Webmaster 0

In the second part of a two-part interview, David Zinner, executive director of Kavod v’Nichum, a Maryland-based organization training Jewish communities and organizations in traditional Jewish funeral practices, describes the educational seminars and conferences held [Read more…]

Rabbi Address, left, chats with David Zinner, executive director of Kavod v'Nichum, an organization focused on providing traditional funeral ritual resources to the Jewish community. Zinner discusses Jewish funeral traditions in the next two episodes of "Conversations" on Jewish Sacred Aging TV.
Gamliel Institute/Kavod v'Nichum

Jewish Sacred Aging TV explores Jewish funeral rituals and spirtuality with Kavod v’Nichum director

July 21, 2014 Steve Lubetkin 0

David Zinner, executive director of Kavod v’Nichum, a Maryland-based organization training Jewish communities and organizations in traditional Jewish funeral practices, is the guest on the next two episodes of “Conversations,” the talk show series on [Read more…]

Rabbi Address, left, chats with David Zinner, executive director of Kavod v'Nichum, an organization focused on providing traditional funeral ritual resources to the Jewish community. Zinner discusses Jewish funeral traditions in the next two episodes of "Conversations" on Jewish Sacred Aging TV.
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Jewish Sacred Aging TV: Jewish funeral and burial customs discussed July 21 at 6pm

July 18, 2014 Steve Lubetkin 0

David Zinner, executive director of Kavod v’Nichum, a Maryland-based organization training Jewish communities and organizations in traditional Jewish funeral practices, is the guest on the next two episodes of “Conversations,” the talk show series on [Read more…]