Foreword
Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, PhD xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Judaism and Health
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH, and Michele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCS xix
Part I
Judaism, Medicine, and Healing
History of Jews in Medicine and Healthcare
Fred Rosner, MD, MACP 1
At the Bedside in the Babylonian Talmud: Reflections on Classical
Rabbinic Healers and Their Approaches to Helping the Suffering
Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW 8
An Overview of Jewish Bioethics
Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhD 20
Words Worth Healing
Rabbi William Cutter, PhD, and Ronald M. Andiman, MD 38
Spiritual Resources for Jewish Healthcare Professionals
Elizabeth Feldman, MD 54
Part II
Jewish Pastoral Care and Caregiving
Jewish Healthcare Chaplaincy: Professionalizing Spiritual
Caregiving
Rabbi Naomi Kalish, BCC 69
Jewish Pastoral Care
Rabbi Mychal B. Springer 81
Pastoral Care in a Postmodern World: Promoting Spiritual Health
across the Life Cycle
Rabbi Nancy Wiener, DMin, and Barbara Breitman, DMin 93
Seminary-Based Jewish Pastoral Education
Rabbi Nancy Wiener, DMin, Rabbi Julie Schwartz, and Michele F.
Prince, LCSW, MAJCS 108
Judaism and Caregiving
Rabbi Stephanie Dickstein, LMSW 128
The Jewish Professional as Personal Caregiver
Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, MBA, BCC 141
Part III
Jewish Approaches to Coping with Challenge
Tradition, Texts, and Our Search for Meaning
Rabbi Richard Address, DMin 157
Bad Things Happen: On Suffering
Rabbi Rachel Adler, PhD 169
Judaism and Disability: R'fuat Hanefesh—The Healing of Our Souls,
Individual and Communal
Rabbi Lynne F. Landsberg and Shelly Thomas Christensen, MA 174
Judaism and Resiliency
Rabbi Shira Stern, DMin, BCC 190
Doing Kaddish to Turn Mourning into Dancing
Rabbi Anne Brener, LCSW 205
Creativity and Healing in a Jewish Context
Judith Margolis 219
Part IV
Judaism, Psychology, and Health
Judaism and Addiction
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, MD 239
Gratitude: Perspectives from Positive Psychology and Judaism
David Pelcovitz, PhD 251
Jewish Religious Coping and Trust in God: A Review of the Empirical
Literature
David H. Rosmarin, PhD, Devora Greer Shabtai, Steven Pirutinsky,
MS, and Kenneth I. Pargament, PhD 265
Population Research on Judaism, Health, and Well-Being
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH 282
Part V
Jewish Communal, Organizational, and Policy Perspectives
A Program Assessment of the Field of Judaism and Health: Program
Review and Key Stakeholder Interviews
Michele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCS 301
Three Jewish Lenses for Work and Health
Rabbi Nancy Epstein, MPH, MAHL, and Adina Newberg, PhD 323
Jewish Ethical Themes That Should Inform the National Healthcare
Discussion: A Prolegomenon
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH 336
Notes 352
Suggested Reading 398
Credits 399
Index 400
Rabbi Elliott N. Dorff, PhD, is the author of many important books,
including The Way Into Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World), a
finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and The Jewish
Approach to Repairing the World (Tikkun Olam): A Brief Introduction
for Christians. An active voice in contemporary interfaith
dialogue, he is Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at
the American Jewish University (formerly the University of
Judaism), and chair of the Academy of Judaic, Christian and Muslim
Studies.
Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, PhD, is available to speak on the following
topics:
Jewish Medical Ethics
Conservative Judaism
Jewish and American Law
Finding God in Prayer
A Jewish Approach to Poverty
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Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH, holds a distinguished chair at Baylor
University, where he is University Professor of Epidemiology and
Population Health, and director of the Program on Religion and
Population Health at the Institute for Studies of Religion. He also
serves as adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
at Duke University School of Medicine.
Michele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCS, is executive director of OUR HOUSE
Grief Support Center in Los Angeles. She is a steering committee
member and former director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and
Health of Hebrew Union College. She is an oncology social worker
affiliated with the Keck Medical Center of the University of
Southern California.
Rabbi Richard Address, DMin, is senior rabbi at M'kor Shalom in
Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Rachel Adler, PhD, is professor of Modern Jewish Thought and
Feminist Studies
at Hebrew Union College Los Angeles. She is the author of
Engendering Judaism:
An Inclusive Theology and Ethics and many articles on feminist
approaches to
Jewish theology and Halacha.
Ronald M. Andiman, MD, is director of the Headache Clinic,
Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los
Angeles, California.
Barbara Breitman, DMin, is assistant professor of pastoral
counseling at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where
she helped found the program in spiritual direction. A pioneer in
the
field of Jewish spiritual direction, she is cofounder of Lev
Shomea, a
training program at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center,
and
coeditor, with Rabbi Howard A. Addison, of Jewish Spiritual
Direction:
An Innovative Guide from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
(Jewish Lights Publishing). An experienced psychotherapist with
a
special interest in trauma, somatic awareness, mindfulness, and
resilience,
she maintains a private practice with individuals and couples
in Philadelphia.
Rabbi Anne Brener, MAJCS, MA, LCSW, is a Los Angeles-based
psychotherapist and spiritual director who has assisted
institutions worldwide in creating caring communities. A prolific
writer, she is the author of the acclaimed Mourning & Mitzvah: A
Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner's Path Through Grief to
Healing (Jewish Lights Publishing). She is a faculty member at the
Academy for Jewish Religion, California, and the Morei Derekh
program of the Yedidya Center for Jewish Spiritual Direction.
Shelly Thomas Christensen, MA, is program manager of the Jewish
Community Inclusion Program for People with Disabilities at the
Jewish Family and Children's Services in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Rabbi William Cutter, PhD, is author of Healing and the Jewish
Imagination: Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and
Health; Midrash and Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish
Interpretive Tradition, and is editor of Healing and the Jewish
Imagination: Spiritual Perspectives on Judaism and Health. He has
published widely on health and healing. He is former director of
the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and professor of modern Hebrew
literature and the Steinberg Professor of Human Relations at Hebrew
Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion.
Rabbi William Cutter, PhD, is available to speak on the following
topics:
• What Is a "Reform" Way to Look at Social Issues
• What Do We Mean When We Speak about Narratives and Ethics?
• Therapoetics: Meanings for Spirituality through Reading Poems
• The Creation of Poetry: Is Every Person a Poet Waiting to
Emerge?
• Biblical Themes in Modern Hebrew Poetry: The Schools of Amichai,
Zelda and Zach
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Rabbi Stephanie Dickstein, LMSW, is spiritual care coordinator for
the Shira Ruskay Center of the Jewish Board of Family and
Children's Services in New York, New York.
Rabbi Stephanie Dickstein, LMSW, is spiritual care coordinator for
the Shira Ruskay Center of the Jewish Board of Family and
Children's Services in New York, New York.
Elizabeth Feldman, MD, is medical coordinator for the Sheriff's
Alternative Programs with Cermak Health Services of Cook County, a
department of Cook County Health and Hospitals System in Chicago,
Illinois.
Rabbi Naomi Kalish, BCC, is coordinator of pastoral care and
education at New York–Presbyterian / Morgan Stanley Children's
Hospital in New York, New York.
Rabbi Lynne F. Landsberg is senior advisor on disability issues for
the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington,
D.C.
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH, holds a distinguished chair at Baylor
University, where he is University Professor of Epidemiology and
Population Health, and director of the Program on Religion and
Population Health at the Institute for Studies of Religion. He also
serves as adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
at Duke University School of Medicine.
Judith Margolis, MFA, is an artist and writer, and art editor for
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues in
Jerusalem, Israel.
Adina Newberg, PhD, is director of the Modern Hebrew Language
Program and associate professor of Hebrew language at
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania.
Kenneth I. Pargament, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Bowling
Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and Distinguished
Scholar in the Institute for Spirituality & Health at the Texas
Medical Center.
David Pelcovitz, PhD, holds the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair
in Psychology and Jewish Education and is a professor at the
Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration of
Yeshiva University in New York, New York.
Steven Pirutinsky, MS, is a doctoral student of counseling and
clinical psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, in
New York, New York.
Michele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCS, is executive director of OUR HOUSE
Grief Support Center in Los Angeles. She is a steering committee
member and former director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and
Health of Hebrew Union College. She is an oncology social worker
affiliated with the Keck Medical Center of the University of
Southern California.
Rabbi Stephen B. Roberts, MBA, MHL, BCJC, is the editor of
Professional Spiritual & Pastoral Care: A Practical Clergy and
Chaplain's Handbook and coeditor of Disaster Spiritual Care:
Practical Clergy Response to Community, Regional and National
Tragedy (both SkyLight Paths Publishing). He is a past president of
the National Association of Jewish Chaplains. Most recently he
served as the associate executive vice president of the New York
Board of Rabbis, directing their chaplaincy program, providing
services in more than fifty locations throughout New York, and
serving as the endorser for both New York State's and New York
City's Jewish chaplains. Prior to this he served as the director of
chaplaincy of the Beth Israel Medical System (New York), overseeing
chaplains and clinical pastoral education (CPE) programs at three
acute care hospitals, one behavioral health hospital, and various
outpatient facilities served by chaplains.
David H. Rosmarin, PhD, is an instructor of psychiatry and an
assistant psychologist at McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School
in Belmont, Massachusetts, and director of the Center for Anxiety
in New York, New York.
Fred Rosner, MD, MACP, is a professor of medicine at Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, New York.
Rabbi Julie Schwartz is director of pastoral care and clinical
pastoral education at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of
Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Devora Greer Shabtai is a psychology major at Stern College for
Women, Yeshiva University, in New York, New York.
Rabbi Mychal B. Springer holds the Helen Fried Kirshblum Goldstein
Chair in Professional and Pastoral Skills and is director of the
Center for Pastoral Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary in
New York, New York.
Rabbi Dr. Shira Stern, MHL, DMin, BCJC, is a past president of and
certified through the National Association of Jewish Chaplains and
currently chairs the Ethics Committee. She has served on the
CCAR
Board of Trustees as the vice president for member services. She
currently has a private pastoral counseling practice in Marlboro,
New Jersey, and serves Temple Rodeph Torah of Marlboro, New Jersey,
as its educator.
Previously, she was the director of community chaplaincy of
Middlesex County, New Jersey, and director of the Jewish Institute
for Pastoral Care, part of the HealthCare Chaplaincy, providing
programs for rabbinic
and cantorial students, chaplains, and clergy in the field. She was
trained by the Red Cross to serve on the SAIR team—Spiritual Air
450 The Infrastructure of Spiritual / Pastoral Care Incident
Response Team (now the Critical Incident Response Team)— and worked
for four months at the Liberty State Park Family Assistance Center
in the aftermath of 9/11. Her selected works include "Visions of an
Alternative Rabbinate," CCAR Journal, and “Healing Muses: Music as
Spiritual Therapy,” Jewish Relational Care A to Z.
Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhD, is the Wiener Professor of
Contemporary Jewish Civilization and director of the Center for
Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where he
served as president for nearly a decade. He was editor in chief of
the seven-volume Kol Haneshamah prayer book series. His book A
Guide to Jewish Practice: Everyday Living (RRC Press) won the
National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and
Practice. He is also author of Spiritual Community: The Power to
Restore Hope, Commitment and Joy (Jewish Lights) and several other
books. He contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing
in Judaism—Yizkor, Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef, All
These Vows—Kol Nidre, and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in
Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights).
Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, MD, a psychiatrist, rabbi, and frequent
lecturer on a broad range of topics including spirituality and
self-esteem, is author of over fifty books, including Happiness and
the Human Spirit: The Spirituality of Becoming the Best You Can Be,
A Formula for Proper Living: Practical Lessons from Life and Torah
(both Jewish Lights), Waking Up Just in Time, The Spiritual Self,
and Getting Up When You're Down. He is the founder and medical
director emeritus of Gateway Rehabilitation Center. For more
information, visit www.abrahamtwerski.com.
Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW, is the rabbinic director of the
New York Jewish Healing Center and the National Center for Jewish
Healing at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in
New York City. He is the author of Healing of Soul, Healing of
Body: Spiritual Leaders
Unfold the Strength and Solace in Psalms (Jewish Lights Publishing)
and Guide Me Along the Way: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for
Surgery (National Center for Jewish Healing).
Rabbi Nancy Wiener, DMin, is clinical director of the Jacob and
Hilda Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling and Dr. Paul and
Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Human Relations at
Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, New
York.
"Reveals why healing without spirituality is a contradiction in
terms.... Will inform anyone who cares about humane, compassionate
healthcare, regardless of their religious affiliation.... I wish
this volume had been available when I was a young physician."
—Larry Dossey, MD, author, One Mind: Why Our Mind Is Part of a
Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters; executive editor,
Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
"Assembles wise teachers and professionals to muster the ancient
wisdom of a resilient people on behalf of greater vitality and
robust life."
—Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL, author, God of Becoming and
Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology and Passing
Life's Tests: Spiritual Reflections on the Trial of Abraham, the
Binding of Isaac
“Fabulous—a very impressive collection, and a real contribution to
the field.”
—Rabbi Dayle Friedman, MSW, MAJCS, BCC, founder, Hiddur: The Center
for Aging and Judaism; founding director of chaplaincy services,
Philadelphia Geriatric Center; author, Jewish Visions for Aging: A
Professional Guide for Fostering Wholeness
“As it is in life, it is in print too: Judaism and health are a
proper and fitting pair.... Judaism informs health so that we all
may live better.”
—Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky, coeditor, Jewish Men Pray: Words of
Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional
and Contemporary Sources; author, Jewish Paths toward Healing and
Wholeness: A Personal Guide to Dealing with Suffering
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