When the Work Comes Home: Planning for Death Belongs in Every Jewish Institution
While we as individuals and professionals can continue to nag our own families to have these important conversations, as Dr. Zitter suggested, there is more we can do as a Jewish community to foster the normalization of these conversations.
Are We Ready “When the Time Comes?”
One evening during shiva, a visitor asked whether my family's experience had been made any easier because of my work as a "death rabbi." The question caught me off guard — not because it was intrusive, but because I genuinely hadn't stopped to ask myself. I smiled and did the only thing I could think to do.
