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Cedars-Sinai’s chaplaincy program puts spirituality on the medical charts
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
December 12, 2012
Usually, the frantic words, “Someone get the rabbi!” uttered in a hospital room mean only one thing. So Debbie Marcus burst into tears when Rabbi Jason Weiner was summoned to her grandfather’s room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in July 2008.
Jewish Chaplain Need Faces Obstacles
Rabbi Mel Gottlieb
March 3, 2005
For more than two years, Norma Glickman led a mostly solitary vigil as she sat by her husband\’s bedside during his all too frequent hospitalizations.
It was not until the day he died, and only after he took his last breath, that a nurse finally asked her if she would like to meet with a Jewish chaplain.
Power of Prayer?
Beverly Gray
April 15, 2004
In the wee small hours of Dec. 7, 2003, my husband and I got the phone call that every parent dreads. A matter-of-fact voice said, \”This is UCLA Medical Center. Your son, Jeffrey, has been hit by a car. He\’s got at least a couple of broken bones, but he\’s alert and he\’s asking for you.\”
As I gasped, unable to take it all in, the voice added, \”Your son was very lucky.\”
Cedars-Sinai Ministers to Spiritual Needs
Gaby Wenig
October 3, 2002
\”A woman came into my office yesterday needing to make a decision about the amputation of her husband\’s leg,\” said Rabbi Levi Meier, the chaplain at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. \”It was a very difficult case, because her husband cannot give proper, informed consent, because his mind is not functioning anymore
Eulogies:Rabbi Marvin L. Labinger
Jewish Journal
August 15, 2002
Rabbi Marvin L. Labinger executive director of the Pacific Southwest Region of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism from 1990-2000, died July 25, 2002 at the age of 66.
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