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senior citizens
JFS brings seders to seniors
Jewish Journal
March 21, 2013
For 34 years, Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles (JFS) has been holding seders for senior citizens across the Los Angeles area, sponsoring services and feeding those who have nowhere else to go during one of the most widely celebrated holidays on the festival calendar.
Aging Creatively
Ellie Kahn, Oral Historian
December 12, 2012
As my friends and I navigate our 60s and 70s, we notice — with amusement and consternation — how our conversations have changed. Instead of talking about our kids’ college applications and the best camping sites, we find ourselves discussing back pain and long-term care insurance. The bottom-line concern, of course, is how to create the best quality of life as we age.
Longer life, programs, care make Jewish Home’s wait list daunting
Jewish Journal
August 29, 2012
As bombs dropped over Germany, aerial photographer Arthur Oxenberg would lean out of a B-17 Flying Fortress with his camera to snap a photograph. His photos were a way the U.S. Army Air Forces could tell whether bombs hit their targets.
At 60 for Zikna
Rabbi Laura Geller
August 29, 2012
The High Holy Day liturgy includes the poignant plea: \”Do not cast me off b\’eyt zikna,\” which is usually translated as \”when I get old.\” It is a fear many of us have, but are often afraid to articulate. We live in a youth-intoxicated culture where older people are sometimes invisible.
A Celebration of Dad
Ellie Kahn
August 29, 2012
I called my 94-year-old father in Ohio on July 9. I told him how much I loved him, that he was the most wonderful father ever, that I would miss him, and that it was OK for him to let go.
The Torah of our lives: On writing the next chapter
Rabbi Laura Geller
May 23, 2012
“Boomers [people born between 1946 and 1964] are the first generation in human history … to reasonably anticipate living well and wholesomely into their 80s and 90s, if not beyond,” sociologist Steven Cohen writes. “But not only are Jews (as others) living longer, they are living in an age of meaning-seeking, with the interest and wherewithal to make living a life of meaning an ultimate and reasonably obtainable objective for any point in their lives.”
Jewish-Japanese seder honors Boyle Heights history
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
April 4, 2012
Tess Friedman passes Ethel Kamiyama a bowl of charoset, and Kimayama spreads a spoonful of the fruit and nut paste onto her shard of matzah. Kamiyama leans over her plate as the small sandwich crumbles at her bite, and nods at Friedman, signaling that she finds this foray into Jewish culture quite tasty.
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