RABBI RICHARD ADDRESS - Key Persons
Barry Pitegoff is a Staff Chaplain at Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis, New York. Barry enjoyed thousands of hours of volunteer chaplaincy at hospitals, hospices, and prisons while he was vice president of market research for Visit Florida, the state's tourism board. After retirement, Barry transformed into professional chaplaincy by taking a second Master's Degree and two years' of hospital internships. Barry was awarded the title of BCC, Board Certified Chaplain at the May 2019 conference of the NAJC (Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains). In 2020, Chaplain Barry was elected to the Board of NAJC, serves on Chaplain Review Committees, and facilitates a monthly national video call of Jewish hospital chaplains.
Carla Sutter MSW/LISW is the Program Director at Care Management and Coordination, A Program of Fairview that is dedicated to helping people care for themselves and family members whose needs are changing due to age or illness. She has worked in the Geriatric Field for over 20 years and has provided training to Companies and individuals throughout the United States and Canada.
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- Founder and Director of Www.Jewishsacredaging.Com
Donald M. Friedman, M.D. received his undergraduate A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1966 and his M.D. from The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1970. He was trained in Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I. and Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Following his Medical Internship and Residency, he did a Fellowship in Medical-Psychiatric Liaison at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY where he learned about the emotional aspects of medical illness. He was also a Fellow in Rheumatology at Temple University Hospital where he was trained to treat arthritis, musculoskeletal, and collagen diseases. From 1976-2004, Dr. Friedman was Chief of the Section of Rheumatology at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, a large community teaching hospital outside of Philadelphia. Since retiring from medical practice in 2004, he has been interested in Spirituality and Healthcare and has taken courses at Harvard Medical School in the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and at the George Washington Institute of Spirituality and Health. He currently teaches courses in Professionalism and Introduction to Clinical Medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. He is Board Certified in Rheumatology and Internal Medicine.
Dr. Silverman currently serves as the Assistant Dean for Information Resources, The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix where he oversees and coordinates IT services on the campus (desktop support, networking, computing security, applications development, and the like), biomedical communications, academic computing, web services, and the biomedical library. Additionally he works with the medical school curriculum, emphasizing the informatics components of the curriculum.
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- Chief Medical Officer, Samaritan Hospice / Healthcare
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- Board Certified Neurologist
Ilena J. Blicker, MD is a board certified neurologist who recently retired after 35 years in solo practice in Glendale, Ca. She has served on Bioethics committees since 1985.
Therapist Joshua Coleman, writing on his specialty of estrangement in The Atlantic, January 10, 2021, commented, "However they arrive at estrangement, parents and adult children seem to be looking at the past and present through very different eyes. Estranged parents often tell me that their adult child is rewriting the history of their childhood."
Larry Rosenberg's life mission is to share consciousness, creativity, connection and contribution. Post-retirement, he founded The Larry Show, one-person musical and inspirational shows based on his life's wisdom, and Adventurous Aging, holistic wellbeing coaching and workshops for people 60+ to reset their life from retiring to refiring. Prior to these enterprises, his 50-year career included higher education in marketing (New York University and University of Massachusetts Amherst), international management training (University of Maryland Global Campus, Tokyo), innovative business consulting and coaching, and holistic health corporate communication. He earned a BS from Drexel University, and an MBA and PhD (Marketing) from The Ohio State University. He lives in Pompano Beach, Florida, where he delights in the area's tropical lifestyle, cultural diversity, and business vitality.
Len Berman's professional career began as an English, drama, and humanities teacher in New York City in 1961. By 1969 he was the New Jersey State Consultant in Arts and Humanities. He continued his twenty-seven years with the New Jersey State Department of Education as a Schools Program Coordinator, retiring in 1996. His career continues as an educational consultant, as a teacher of Judaica, and as a writer. He lives with his wife, Toby, in Voorhees, New Jersey. He has nine brilliant grandchildren.
Rabbi Sacks taught, "We cannot fully understand what is happening to us now until we can look back in retrospect and see how it all turned out….We are not held captive by the past. Things can happen to us, not as dramatically as to Joseph perhaps, but nonetheless benign, that can completely alter the way we look back and remember. By action in the future, we can redeem the past."
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- Author of "Praying the Bible" on the JSA Podcast
Rabbi Mark Howard Levin, founding rabbi of Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, KS, is the guest on the November 18 Jewish Sacred Aging Podcast. Rabbi Levin is the author of Praying the Bible: Finding Personal Meaning in the Siddur, Ending Boredom & Making Each Prayer Experience Unique. About…
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- Rabbi
- Founder and Director of JewishSacredAging.Com
- Specialist
Rabbi Address is the guest on the January 3, 2024 episode of the "Essential Questions" podcast hosted by Rabbi Dan Levin. You can listen to the conversation in the player below. Rabbi Levin is the senior rabbi of Temple Beth El, located in Boca Raton, FL.
Rabbi Address, founder and director of JewishSacredAging.com, was honored by the Denver Reform Jewish community with its Isaac Mayer Wise award after appearing as scholar-in-residence there earlier this month.
Rabbi Richard F. Address, D.Min, is the Founder and Director of www.jewishsacredaging.com. Rabbi Address served for over three decades on staff of the Union for Reform Judaism; first as a Regional Director and then, beginning in 1997, as Founder and Director of the URJ's Department of Jewish Family Concerns and served as a specialist and consultant for the North American Reform Movement in the areas of family related programming. Rabbi Address was ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1972 and began his rabbinic career in Los Angeles congregations. He also served as a part time rabbi for Beth Hillel in Carmel, NJ while regional director and, after his URJ tenure, served as senior rabbi of Congregation M'kor Shalom in Cherry Hill, NJ from 2011-2014.
Rabbi Richard F. Address serves as the specialist and congregation consultant for the North American Reform movement in the program areas of Caring Community and Family Concerns. His work has been based on the belief that a congregation, to be a true "caring community", must be founded on a theology of sacred relationships.