Originally printed in the Family First magazine My Brother Chesky I was a post-seminary graduate when my thirteen-year-old only brother, Chesky, started feeling lethargic. The diagnosis: leukemia. “Leukemia?” we asked the doctor, stunned. “Leukemia,” he confirmed. My family was thrown onto the cancer rollercoaster. With his positive attitude and upbeat personality, Chesky was a trooper. All he wanted was to get through this and be done. Chemo, radiation, [...]
A Program Rooted in Kindness Looking back at the beginnings of the many options and services that now come under the umbrella of Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah, I am amazed at how some of them came to be, “once upon a time.” It’s easy to look at the smorgasbord of programs, some of which are related, and think that they were all implemented at once, the brainchild of [...]
How the Idea of When Caring Counts Most Was Born Rabbi Elchonon Zohn of NASCK (National Association of Chevrah Kadisha) never knows what his days will bring. As someone who is extremely devoted to the klal in inyanim of kavod hameis, he fields tens of phone calls daily with questions, concerns, and emergencies. One day a man came to speak to him, his face reflecting the crushing [...]
Originally published in the Ami Magazine Grappling with Yizkor for My Not-So-Ordinary Family I used to feel angry when it came time for Yizkor. I couldn’t understand why I needed to say it. A tefillah to remember? Really? I need to say Yizkor four times a year to remember my deceased parents. Guess what? I remember them every day. I think about them, I talk about them and [...]
By Margie Pensak As the West Coast director of The National Association of Chevra Kadisha (NASCK), headed by Rabbi Elchonon Zohn, Robin Meyerson has no shortage of sagas to share about educating the unaffiliated regarding the importance of kevurah k’halachah. Her volunteer position includes training hospice workers under the auspices of her Rav, Rabbi Ariel Shoshan, and Rabbi Yehoshua Fromowitz of Ahavas Torah: The Scottsdale Torah Center, and [...]
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