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Jewish Journal
January 18, 2007
Category
healing
Healing community rises from life-threatening illness
Charlotte Hildebrand
December 14, 2006
One out of eight women develop the disease over a lifetime, and the older a woman is, the higher her risk.To make matters worse, Jewish women have a slightly higher incidence of the disease.But no matter how low a risk factor you may have — no family members with breast cancer, you had your children before the age of 35 and eat healthily — the disease will strike some of the best of us.
The great (non) depression
Rabbi Anne Brener
November 30, 2006
Depression is a word that has been cheapened. We forget that it is a diagnosis for a bona fide disease. It becomes a catch phrase for the weighty feelings we experience as we come to terms with life\’s challenges and honor the process of change.
To comfort me, first comfort yourself
Rabbi Anne Brener
November 2, 2006
The wisdom to help others is not privileged information. It is taught to all of us through our life experiences.
Wanted: someone to help suffering Jews
Amy Klein
October 12, 2006
Who will provide spiritual care for the needy?
Movie on pedophile priest puts a face on evil
Naomi Pfefferman
October 12, 2006
\”Evil\” — which won the nonfiction prize at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival in July — presents for perhaps the first time a convicted pedophile speaking graphically about his actions on camera. O\’Grady\’s words provide \”the backbone of a deeply disturbing documentary about the Roman Catholic clergy abuse crisis,\” the Associated Press said.
There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on over Power Plate
Debbe Geiger
October 5, 2006
The Power Plate features a vibrating platform that oscillates 30 to 50 times per second. Each time, it stimulates the nervous system and creates a reflex in the body that causes the muscles to contract. The Power Plate Web site lists dozens of college and professional sports teams as using vibration training in their regimens.
‘World Trade Center’ Writer Views Film as Catharsis
Morris Newman
August 4, 2006
\”I wanted the movie to be a catharsis,\” says Andrea Berloff, the screenwriter of \”World Trade Center,\” the Oliver Stone-directed docudrama that opens Aug. 9. \”I\’ve felt that way from the beginning.\” The film is a surprising coup for the young writer, a soft-spoken graduate of Cornell\’s Drama School, who has never before had a script produced.
If having her script produced is a coup for Berloff, the completed film is likely to be greeted with hailstorms of discourse, not least because it seems the current spate of 9/11 movies is a reminder that films have become a primary way for Americans to digest difficult and painful events.
A ‘Nice’ Idea Blossoms Into a Group of ‘Niceaholics’
Rebecca Raphael
July 27, 2006
\”I realized that if you have the ability to help other people, you\’re in a pretty good place,\” says Debbie Tenzer. \”It\’s not always easy, because basically, we\’re selfish creatures, many of us struggling every day. We have to make a choice, and it starts by doing just one nice thing.\”
Healing Torah Makes Hospital Rounds
Amy Klein
June 22, 2006
One day last year Rabbi Levi Meier, the Jewish chaplain at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, was summoned to the room of an elderly Russian man in the ICU who had cancer.
He was in poor spirits, so Meier decided to bring in the Torah from the chaplaincy ark. The patient\’s eyes lit up at the sight of the Torah that Meier, and volunteer Sandy Gordon, brought into a room.
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