Organization: The Bioethics Group of the Society of Jewish Ethics, The Foundation for Jewish Studies, The Kalsman Institute, The Center for Ethics at Washington Hospital Center
Title: Biomedical Ethics: Traditional Jewish Values across the Continuum of Life
Description:
A Symposium for Physicians, Nurses, Social Workers, Allied Healthcare Providers, Rabbis, Chaplains, & the General Public. The Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health will be providing CEUs for MFTs, Social Workers, and RNs for this event at the cost of $25.00. The NAJC will provide CEUs for NAJC certified chaplains for free.
Click here to register and to view the schedule and presenter information.
Click here to view the event flyer.
Previous Initiatives & Events
Pre-Marital Counseling Workshop
November 18, 2011
PREPARE AND ENRICH Premarital Counseling workshop on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, at HUC, from 8:30am to 3:00pm.
The program is a helpful tool to help clergy help couples with their relationships. The program is built on a strong research foundation and provides you with relationship assessment skills to help you make a positive impact in the life a premarital couple.
Title: PREPARE AND ENRICH Pre-Marital Counseling Workshop
Date: November 18, 2011
Location: HUC-LA, Jack H. Skirball Campus
Description:
This student training session on how to conduct Pre-Marital Counseling featured Rabbi Ruth Alpers, a staff chaplain and the ACPE supervisor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the Department of Pastoral Care. The program is built on a strong research foundation and provides you with relationship assessment skills to help you make a positive impact in the life a premarital couple. You will receive step-by-step instruction on the program, and you will receive a certificate of completion after the day-long training. Students will be provided with a print and DVD resource kit to use during and after the training.
Regional Yom Iyun November 8, 2011 The Kalsman Institute, the NAJC, the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles invite you to a Regional Yom Iyun. Presenters, with noted teacher, Rabbi Zahara Davidowitz-Farkas, will speak on the critical topic "Understanding the Nature of Disaster and How to Help Your Community Heal." We will learn with Zahara and other outstanding colleagues with special expertise and experience in the field, including Rabbis Jason Weiner, Sara Berman and Morley Feinstein. Following lunch, participants will select one of two breakout sessions focusing on either the Congregational/Jewish context of healing or the Communal/Interfaith response to crises and disasters.
Pre-Marital Counseling Workshop February 16, 2009
This student training session on how to conduct Pre-Marital Counseling featured Harriet Rosen, who helped to edit the URJ's "Aleph Bet of Marriage" curriculum and created its accompanying Facilitator's Guide, as well as Michele Prince, LCSW, and Rabbi Julie Pelc from the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health.
Location: Congregation Beth Chayim Chadashim, Los Angeles, California
Description:
This student training session on how to conduct Pre-Marital Counseling featured Harriet Rosen, who helped to edit the URJ's "Aleph Bet of Marriage" curriculum and created its accompanying Facilitator's Guide, as well as Michele Prince, LCSW, and Rabbi Julie Pelc from the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health. Students also received a packet of intake forms gathered from rabbis throughout the country as well as some of their "best practices" for both pre-marital counseling and officiating at weddings.
In
the Spirit of Hope: An Inter-seminary Oncology Institute 2003, 2004
Six Southern California seminaries, including HUC-JIR, participate in this summer
training program to provide seminary students and community clergy with professional
insights into spiritual care within a healthcare setting.
Title: the Spirit of Hope: An Inter-seminary Oncology Institute
Date: 2003, 2004
Location: City of Hope, Duarte, California
Description: Six Southern California seminaries, including HUC-JIR, participated in this summer training program to provideseminary students and community clergy with professional insights into spiritual care within a healthcare setting. The City of Hope Medical Center campus, a comprehensive cancer center and innovative biomedical
research, treatment and educational institution, provides the training ground for this two-week program.
Death, Dying and End of Life Issues November 6, 13, 20, 2003
An on-line interactive scholarly discourse on end-of-life issues, co-presented with the Joint Commission on Sustaining Rabbinic Education of the CCAR and HUC-JIR.
Organization: HUC-JIR and The Joint Commission on Sustaining Rabbinic Education
Title: Death, Dying and End of Life Issues
Date: November 6, 13, 20, 2003
Location: On-Line
Description:
An on-line interactive scholarly discourse on end-of-life issues, co-presented with the Joint Commission on
Sustaining Rabbinic Education of the CCAR and HUC-JIR. This three-part mini-course is available to all CCAR
members, and features sessions on literature, ethics, and congregational scholarship. Originally the HUC-JIR
Department of Distance Education made this course accessible to colleagues around the globe through web-based
educational materials and real-time call-in courses. The material is now available through the commission's
archives.
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.
Click here to view video: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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. Click here to view video
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. Click here for video/audio
Bill Cutter
on the Kalsman Institute's Origins
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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