Exit Strategy

By: Stephanie Garry Executive Vice President Plaza Jewish Community Chapel
  • Summary

  • What’s one thing we’re all good at? How about not talking — or even thinking — about end-of-life issues.
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Episodes
  • “Honor and Comfort” — Giving Space to End-of-Life Ritual and Practice
    Nov 18 2024

    End-of-life conversations and practices are increasingly emergent in the Jewish community, as communal entities bring attention to the value and beauty of deeply rooted Jewish thought and tradition surrounding death. Kavod v’Nichum (Hebrew for “Honor and Comfort”) is creating and empowering Chevra Kadisha — sacred communities that care for the deceased and comfort the living. […]

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    23 mins
  • Post-October 7, Reaching for Community, Future and Hope: A Conversation with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
    Oct 28 2024

    In his new and widely acclaimed book — “For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today” — Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue in NYC uses Jewish history and storytelling to frame the challenges facing the Jewish community post-Oct 7 … the individual and collective grief and sense of isolation … and […]

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    24 mins
  • October 7: Marking a Year, and Embracing Hope
    Sep 30 2024

    A year after October 7, we are individually and collectively seeking a marker to frame our grief and our trauma, but is that even possible? “The difficulty of commemorating October 7 is that we’re still in the middle of it … you can’t look back with a sense of completion,” says Rabbi Donald Goor, Rabbi […]

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    21 mins

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