Services
The Healing Center
While on our journey through life, many of us ask questions about the meaning of our lives and how Judaism can help us when facing challenges, pain and/or illness, repairing relationships, dealing with grief, coping with transitions, healing our bodies and being there for loved ones.
The Jewish Healing Center of Jewish Family Service helps Jewish individuals who are confronting these challenges through a range of programs, services, resources and education.
Growing out of our rich Jewish tradition and supported by caring members of the Jewish community, The Jewish Healing Center offers Jewish support groups, Jewish spiritual counseling, workshops, conferences, publications and consultation.
The Jewish Healing Center’s goal is to address issues related to loss and spirituality by helping attain a sense of wholeness through healing techniques and connections to a caring community and the spiritual traditions of Judaism.
Bikur Cholim (visiting the sick)
An outreach service provided by trained Jewish volunteers, free of charge, to Jews who are dealing with chronic, life-threatening or terminal illness.
Kulam B’Yachad (Everyone Together)
Kulam B’Yachad, a volunteer program coordinated by Jewish Family Service in cooperation with local synagogues, offers services to provide comfort and support to the ill, homebound, isolated and/or distressed. Kulam B’Yachad was created to address the needs of the growing senior population, as well as individuals of any age who live with illness and must rely upon family, friends, and public support systems to help manage their everyday lives.
In the spirit of bikur cholim (visiting the sick), the program partners with local synagogues to identify and train volunteers from the broader Jewish community to reduce social isolation through personal visitation and assistance to participants and their families.
Jewish Support Groups
For persons experiencing life transitions, grief, illness, care- giving responsibilities, spiritual exploration, and other groups as the needs arise.
A Resource Library
Comprised of books, articles, pamphlets and tapes related to Jewish spiritual joy and healing.
Training Seminars, Workshops and Conferences
For rabbis, cantors, Jewish health-care professionals and bikur cholim volunteers and the community.
Information and Referral
To help individuals and families utilize Jewish spiritual resources as well as health care resources.
Please check the calendar to see the specific dates of our programs. For more detailed information about any of the Healing Center programs at JFS at 609-822-1108.
