Hiddur Pnai Zaken: Transforming Aging in Our Congregations & Communities into a Season of Splendor

Kalsman Partner Rabbi Dayle Friedman, founder and director of Hiddur, The Center for Aging and Judaism, discusses how to view aging congregations as opportunities for growth and renewal in the Jewish community. Her work is influenced through multiple perspectives of training as a rabbi, social worker, Jewish communal service worker and chaplain.
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An Introduction to Jewish Bioethics

Rabbi Elliot Dorff gives an introduction to medical bioethics to rabbinical students at an HUC-JIR, Los Angeles "Lunch and Learn" session. He describes bioethics from a Jewish perspective as an area of study and consideration alongside a larger ethics arena.
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Prayers for Healing from the Jewish Mystical Tradition

As part of HUC-JIR's "Lunch and Learn" series, Dr. Eitan Fishbane delivered a lecture entitled, "Prayers for Healing from the Jewish Mystical Tradition" at HUC-Los Angeles in November 2003. In this talk, Dr. Fishbane addressed the ability of the mind to bring about balance within the physical body, using text from Degel Mahaneh Efrayim, by R. Moshe Hayyim Efrayim of Sudilkov. To view an introduction to Dr. Fishbane's lecture, view the entire presentation, and see the Hasidic text he taught, please click below.
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Bill Cutter on the Kalsman Institute's Orgins

Rabbi William Cutter, PhD, the Director of the Kalsman Institute, Professor of Education and Modern Hebrew Literature, Steinberg Professor of Human Relations and Lecturer in Chaplaincy, discusses the Institute's origins.
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