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Mitzvah: Caring for others in life and in death

Posted April 3rd, 2018

On a sunny July morning, I drove into the Waldheim Jewish Cemetery in Forest Park, a suburb west of Chicago, to attend the burial service for a former hospice patient. Waldheim was founded during the second wave of Jewish immigration to the city in the late 19th century, and it has been the final resting place for women like Sara, a Holocaust survivor from Russia who lived into her 90s.

A mission for today: one simple act of kindness

Posted September 23rd, 2016

October 15, 2016 What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?—Micah 6:8 While driving up the… Read more »