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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

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Chaplain Baruch Siris visits with patient Clara Stofkooper at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, in this recent undated photo. (Courtesy/ Dina Frenkel)
May 17, 2024, 1:56 pm
Chaplain duo at Soroka hospital treat patients spiritually wounded by October 7
The country’s second-largest hospital has taken in some 3,000 people hurt during the Hamas atrocities and their aftermath, but as the clergy can attest, not all wounds are physical
By Diana Bletter
Rabbi Ilan Glazer (drums) and his band, featuring wife Sherri on vocals, perform at the 'Gam Ki Elech' album release show on January 14, 2024. (Maranda Kosten via Ilan Glazer/ via JTA)
February 19, 2024, 2:27 am
When Judaism didn’t offer rituals for a stillbirth, a grieving couple created their own
After losing their son 26 weeks into a long-sought pregnancy, Ilan and Sherri Glazer found no liturgy for their loss. They’re releasing a new album inspired by their experience
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Aminadav Shvat stands outside his restaurant in Pisac, next to an easel advertising some of the Israeli dishes he serves. (Jacob Kessler/ JTA)
June 15, 2023, 5:48 am
Israelis flock to this tiny town in Peru for vacation — and psychedelic spirituality
With Hebrew as common on the streets as the local language, Pisac is seeing an influx of sabras seeking a respite from the stresses of everyday life in Israel
By Jacob Kessler
Zvi Ish-Shalom addresses a class on the Path of Primordial Light in an undated photo. (Courtesy)
January 13, 2023, 1:06 pm
Do you see the light? Descendant of Hasidic scholar teaches ‘Primordial Torah’
In his 20s, Zvi Ish-Shalom underwent a spiritual transformation rooted in Kabbalah; his new book offers an ‘experiential shift in consciousness’ – for Jews and non-Jews alike
By Jen Sonstein Maidenberg
Rachel Schwartz stands in front of a piece of graffiti that plays on the commandment to wear tzitzit, written in the Hebrew feminine. (Courtesy of Rachel Schwartz/JTA)
January 8, 2023, 3:47 pm
Embracing their place on ‘the fringes,’ queer artists reimagine Jewish ritual garb
Now with garments on sale online, the Tzitzit Project is an art initiative founded to create tzitzit and prayer shawls for a variety of bodies, genders and religious denominations
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Turkish Mevlevi Dervish Osman Sariaj, left, seen during a Sama ceremony commemorating the 749th death anniversary of Islamic Sufi mystic Rumi, at the Irfa Culture Center in Konya, Turkey, December 17, 2022. (Tobias Siegal/Times of Israel)
December 30, 2022, 1:03 pm
In Turkey, Islamic mystic Rumi’s whirling connects even Iranians and Israeli Jews
During a 10-day annual commemoration ceremony known as the Şeb-i Arus or ‘the night of the union,’ Konya is Turkey’s most buzzing pilgrimage center. This year, ToI was there, too
By Tobias Siegal
Deborah Newbrun. (Margot Yecies via JTA)
November 22, 2022, 2:16 am
Jewish marriage rites are robust; now a rabbi is making rituals for Jews who divorce
Remembering what was lacking when she divorced, Deborah Newbrun adapts existing practices to help people with healing and closure
By Alix Wall
Dr. Stephen Daniel Arnoff, the author of 'About Man and God and Law, the Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan' (Courtesy Stephen Daniel Arnoff)
April 29, 2022, 1:49 pm
Podcast: How does it feel? Bob Dylan thinker explores the singer’s spiritual wisdom
Stephen Daniel Arnoff speaks about the music, lyrics and lessons learned from a lifetime of Dylan songs
By ToI Staff
Rebecca Erev, co-founder of the Queer Mikveh Project, blows the shofar at the first QMP mikveh event at the Albany Bulb in Albany, California, in 2015. (Chani Bockwinkel/ via JTA)
January 17, 2022, 2:37 am
The Queer Mikveh Project immerses marginalized Jews worldwide in a changing ritual
Online and in-person, a new group is making the tradition of the ritual bath communal rather than personal, and more welcoming to non-cis-gendered participants
By Rachel Román
Rabbi Zac Kamenetz is one of the organizers of the landmark Jewish Psychedelic Summit. (J. the Jewish News of Northern California; background courtesy of Shefa/Shannon Levin/ via JTA)
April 18, 2021, 5:34 am
Jewish psychedelics movement blasts off with first-ever conference
Rabbi Zac Kamenetz has visions of healing generations of Jewish trauma with psychedelic experiences, and after being laid off during the pandemic, he’s working to make them real
By David A.M. Wilensky
Dasee Berkowitz, center, director of Ayeka's Soulful Parenting program and author of 'Becoming a Soulful Parent' (Courtesy Ayeka)
March 9, 2021, 3:03 am
A parenting book taps into the soulful side of raising a family
Dasee Berkowitz lays out a gentler, more spiritual path to bringing up children, an outgrowth of a popular program pioneered by educational organization Ayeka
By Jessica Steinberg
Neshama Carlebach
August 24, 2020, 9:28 am
Neshama Carlebach
Carlebach is my name too
Can we hold the gray space of human failure and creativity? It’s not only a question about the music of my father Shlomo Carlebach
Illustrative: Senate Foreign Relations Committee members seen from behind in the foreground: (left to right) Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, Sen. William Fullbright, D-Ark., Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., and Sen. George Aiken, R-VT, on April 11, 1969. (AP Photo)
May 7, 2020, 6:05 pm
50 years ago, upstart rabbi used Jewish law to tell Senate to end Vietnam War
36-year-old Irving Greenberg was virtually unknown when he told US leaders the Vietnam War dehumanized victims created in the image of God. There are lessons to be learned today
By Josh Feigelson
Illustrative: In this photo taken Thursday, June 20, 2013, Israeli Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz, left, of the Kashuvot organization for pastoral care, posed for a photo with a patient and nurse at a hospital in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
March 27, 2020, 4:29 am
While working remotely, chaplains aim to give COVID-19 patients rare human touch
With a ‘new normal’ causing most clerical duties to be conducted via phone or video chat, spiritual caregivers try to adapt without changing what works most
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Students meditate as part of the morning prayer at Romemu Yeshiva in New York, July 16, 2019. The yeshiva combines intensive study of Jewish text with mindfulness and mysticism. (Ben Sales)
July 21, 2019, 6:08 am
Tai chi with tefillin: Inside New York’s quirkiest yeshiva
Romemu Yeshiva seeks to show American Jews that Eastern concepts, such as meditation, mindfulness and mystical philosophy, are part of Jewish tradition
By Ben Sales
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