Volunteers from the Highland Park Conservative Temple-Congregation Anshe Emeth Sisterhood were recently cooking and assembling food for The Chicken Soup Project, sponsored by the Martin & Edith Stein Hospice. Pictured are (left to right)...
Read morePatients don’t want to hear that they’re dying and doctors don’t want to tell them. But new guidance for the nation’s cancer specialists says they should be upfront and do it far sooner. The American Society of Clinical Oncology says too often...
Read moreA new website called Shiva Connect allows mourners to create a registry with service and burial information; locations and times for sitting shiva; the ability yo place deli orders and gift baskets to be delivered to mourner’s homes; a list...
Read morePlease join us for a discussion: The Jewish Afterlife Most of us prefer not to contemplate our own mortality. We do, however, like to laugh about it, listen to music about it and watch movies that do it for us. There is no issue that stirs up as...
Read moreThe Obama administration, reversing course, will revise a Medicare regulation to delete references to end-of-life planning as part of the annual physical examinations covered under the new health care law, administration officials said. The move...
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Agathe von Trapp [pictured above], the eldest daughter of the von Trapp family made famous in “The Sound of Music,” who took exception to the way her father was portrayed, died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She...
Read moreWhen a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” [it was] dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation...
Read moreThis week begins the celebration of the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah. Hanukkah is the celebration of two miracles that occurred in the year 167 BCE. The Second Temple in Jerusalem was under control of the Seleucid Greek dynasty, whose ruler was...
Read moreUpon Jacob’s return from Haran, from his father-in-law Laban’s house, he realizes it is time to confront his brother Esau, whom he had slighted over 20 years earlier. When Jacob left Esau, he was set on killing him when their father...
Read moreStudy: N.J. cancer patients likelier to die in hospital: Cancer patients in New Jersey are more likely than patients elsewhere to spend their dying days in a hospital receiving aggressive care such as chemotherapy, tube-feeding and breathing...
Read moreBy Marilyn Henry At a recent shiva call, I listened as a mourner told the sad story of her sister’s deterioration. “The hospice came in on Tuesday and she died Thursday.” This is the traditional narrow view: that a hospice is a type of care that...
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Former Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson has been placed in hospice care at his Thousand Oaks, Calif. home for complications resulting from dementia. The 76-year-old Anderson was inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in...
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