NeshamaCast

Chaplain Hagar Ben-Eliezer , BCC, is a Chaplain and Wellness Therapist for Hillel at UC Berkeley. She previously worked in pediatric chaplaincy at both UCSF and Stanford hospitals. She teaches medical school students on Trauma Informed Care, Somatic Healing and has created workshops in veterinarian chaplaincy she leads for staff at animal hospitals. In  the summer of 2024 Hagar served as the Hille...

Rabbi Chaplain Stephen Roberts is a leading practitioner and teacher in the field of professional chaplaincy. He has written, edited and co-edited vital works that have become standard reading for CPE classes and chaplains in the field. These include his edited work Professional Spiritual and Pastoral Care: A Practical Clergy and Chaplain's Handbook , the first comprehensive resource for spiritual...

Rabbi Mira Rivera is the first Filipina-American woman to receive rabbinic ordination at The Jewish Theological Seminary. She is Rabbi-in-Residence nationally with The LUNAR Collective , a Gen-Z founded organization by and for Asian American Jews.  She also serves as Rabbi-In-Residence at JCC Harlem with a mission of growing an in-person Shabbat community of learners, daveners, and organizers that...

This is Part 4 in the series: Let’s Talk: Interfaith Voices on Israel. In this series, Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn, President of Neshama:Association of Jewish Chaplains, engages in dialogue with diverse faith leaders across America to discuss their personal and religious connections to Israel in a series co-sponsored by NAJC, Moishe House, the International Rabbinic Fellowship and Congregation...

This is Part 3 in the series: Let’s Talk: Interfaith Voices on Israel. In this series, Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn, President of Neshama:Association of Jewish Chaplains, engages in dialogue with diverse faith leaders across America to discuss their personal and religious connections to Israel in a series co-sponsored by NAJC, Moishe House, the International Rabbinic Fellowship and Congregation...

Rabbi Nancy Wiener , D. Min., was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and now serves on the faculty of its New York City campus as: Founding Director of the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Center for Pastoral Counseling; Dr. Paul and Trudy Steinberg Distinguished Professor in Human Relations; and Fieldwork Coordinator. Rabbi Wiener, along with Rabbi Jo Hirschmann, is a co-autho...

This is Part 2 in the series: Let’s Talk: Interfaith Voices on Israel. In this series, Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn, President of Neshama:Association of Jewish Chaplains, engages in dialogue with diverse faith leaders across America to discuss their personal and religious connections to Israel in a series co-sponsored by NAJC, Moishe House, the International Rabbinic Fellowship and Congregation...

This is the first session in the series: Let’s Talk: Interfaith Voices on Israel. In this series, Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn, President of Neshama:Association of Jewish Chaplains, engages in dialogue with diverse faith leaders across America to discuss their personal and religious connections to Israel in a series co-sponsored by NAJC, Moishe House, the International Rabbinic Fellowship and Co...

About Our Guest: Cantor Rabbi Rob Jury, PhD, BCC, CRADC, LCPC, NCC Cantor Rabbi Dr. Jury is the Founder and Clinical Director of the Tikvah Center for Jewish Recovery & Healing , a state licensed and JCAHO accredited, Jewish addiction treatment program in Northbrook, Illinois. His Rabbinic ordination is from the Hebrew Seminary for the Deaf in Skokie, IL. Rob is also the senior rabbi at Congregati...

About Our Guest: Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn recently began her term as President of Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains . Rabbanit Alissa was ordained at Yeshivat Maharat and is a Board Certified Chaplain. She is  a full-time staff chaplain at New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center where she specializes in end-of-life care, palliative care, and psychiatric care. S...

The Journal of Jewish Spiritual Care can be found here .  Transcripts of this episode and other NeshamaCast episodes may be found at https://neshamacast.simplecast.com.  For more about Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains , visit https://najc.org   or on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/JewishChplns .   About Our Guests: Rabbi Charles P. Rabinowitz, BCC, provides home hospice and palliati...

About Our Guest Reb Cantor Lisa Levine is a well known cantor, composer, author, chaplain, poet and recording artist who builds bridges between faith communities. Lisa earned a BA from University of California Irvine and received her Ordination from HUC-JIR DFSSM. Lisa is the author of Yoga Shalom a popular Jewish Yoga book as well as the prayer voice of “Hebrew In Harmony” curriculum published by...

About Our Guest Allison Kestenbaum, BCC, ACPE, is the Supervisor of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education at UC San Diego Health.  She is a Board Certified Chaplain (NAJC and APC) with Advanced Certification in Hospice and Palliative Care. She is also a Certified Pastoral Educator (ACPE).   Allison conducts research about spiritual palliative care and education and is founding faculty at...

About our guest:  Rabbi Shira Stern was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1983 and earned her Doctor of Ministry from HUC-JIR in 2003.  She was the rabbi and educator of the Monroe Township Jewish Center for 13 years.  She has also served as a hospital and hospice chaplain, Director of the Joint Chaplaincy Program of Greater Middlesex County and the Direc...

Rabbi Valerie Stessin is the Director of Kashouvot: The Center for Spiritual Care in Israel . A native of France, Valerie earned a BA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, majoring in Special Education and Jewish Philosophy and received a teaching degree from the Kerem Institute. Valerie studied at the Schechter Institute , earned two M.A. degrees and had the honor to be the first woman ordaine...

About our guest: Rabbi Dr. Joseph S. Ozarowski, BCC Rabbi Joe has enjoyed a fulfilling career as a pulpit rabbi, educator, prolific author and board-certified chaplain for more than 40 years. He has worked full-time at JCFS Chicago since 2005 and presently serves as Rabbinic Counselor and Jewish Chaplaincy Services Chaplain. Rabbi Ozararowski serves as President of Neshama: The Association of Jewi...

In NeshamaCast, we will hear from a variety of Jewish chaplains in the field to share their stories describing Jewish spiritual care and why it matters. Our guests will offer their perspectives from the field on the impact Jewish chaplains have on the people we serve and related topics such as major trends in Jewish spiritual care, Jewish medical ethics, disaster chaplaincy, interfaith relations,...