As the Jewish New Year approaches, many of us make apologies, ask for forgiveness, and we hope for a new year filled with health and happiness. But facing cancer can complicate the High Holidays. Maybe you can’t travel to spend the holidays with friends or family. Perhaps it is difficult to spend long periods of time at synagogue. And our concerns can extend beyond the practical. While facing such a difficult experience, are we expected to ask for forgiveness? How can we even think about the coming year, as we are still trying to get through the current one? Even the High Holiday liturgy can present challenges.
Join us on Friday, September 26th at 12:30 pm EDT/9:30 am PDT, to help you prepare for more meaningful High Holidays, and the coming new year with special guest, Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner, Executive Director of the Spiritual Care Department, at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, who will speak about personal resilience during the holidays.
Questions? Contact Rachel Teicher at [email protected].
Speaker Bio
Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner, BCC, is the senior rabbi and executive director of the Spiritual Care Department at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, where he oversees the chaplaincy team and all spiritual care services across the health system. He also serves as rabbi of Knesset Israel Synagogue of Beverlywood and as a senior consultant to Ematai.
Formerly the assistant rabbi at Young Israel of Century City, Rabbi Weiner holds two rabbinic ordinations, a doctorate in clinical bioethics, a master’s in bioethics and health policy from Loyola University (Chicago), and a master’s in Jewish history from Yeshiva University. He completed four units of clinical pastoral education and is a board-certified chaplain.
He serves on the executive committee of the Cedars-Sinai Bioethics Committee and is a past president of the Southern California Board of Rabbis. He has received chaplaincy and rabbinic leadership awards from the Rabbinical Council of America, Orthodox Union, Chabad On-Call, Chai Lifeline, and Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains, where he chairs their ethics committee. In 2023, he donated a kidney to a stranger.
Rabbi Weiner frequently lectures nationwide as a scholar-in-residence on Jewish medical ethics, pastoral care, and wellness, and teaches hands-on Jewish medical ethics to high school students throughout Los Angeles.
In addition to dozens of articles and book chapters, he is the author of Guide to Observance of Jewish Law in a Hospital (Kodesh Press), Jewish Guide to Practical Medical Decision-Making (Urim Press), cited in a Supreme Court brief, and Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility (Georgetown University Press), a finalist for the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Book Prize.
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