American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC)

Association For Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE)

Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) 

Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice And Education (CAPPE)

National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC)

www.hiddur.org

Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College works to transform later life into a season of splendor. Hiddur offers rabbinic training, creates programmatic resources for Jewish elders and those who serve them, and generates Jewish spiritual responses to the challenges and opportunities of aging.

Sacred Seasons: Jewish Spiritual Resources for Elders

Sacred Seasons, a project of Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism offers unique tools to enable Jewish elders in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and retirement communities to celebrate Shabbat and Jewish holidays. Kits for Shabbat and Passover are available at www.sacredseasons.org.

www.jewishlights.com

Especially featuring: Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources, edited by Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, MAJCS, MSW, BCC, (2nd edition, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2005)

Plain Views

PlainViews , an e-newsletter for chaplains and other spiritual care providers, strives to bring as much news as briefly as possible.

Articles are grouped into four areas: Professional Practice, Advocacy, Education & Research, and Spiritual Development.

New York Board of Rabbis

The chaplaincy page contains timely and useful materials and links.

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has a proud heritage of education and service, and pastoral care has always been an important part of its clinical healing mission. The main page contains general information on the Pastoral Care Department. The resource and education page is http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/pastoral/resed/index.html

Jewish Healing
The National Center for Jewish Healing (NCJH) was established in 1994 in response to a national upsurge of interest in reclaiming ancient Jewish spiritual wisdom and resources that foster wholeness, hope, comfort and connection in the face of illness and loss. The links page is an excellent collection of resource material.

Other links and areas of interest

The Reconsructionist Rabbinical College has a variety of materials that relate Jewish Chaplaincy. Below are a few that may be of interest

• http://youtube.com/profile?user=RRCedu
• Article 1 Reprinted from the Reconstructionist Journal, 1948, by permission
• Article 2 Reprinted from the Reconstructionist Journal, 1948, by permission

FIRST INTERNATIONAL JEWISH HEALING RETREAT FOR COUPLES IN ISRAEL The JBFCS National Center for Jewish Healing, the National Association of Jewish Chaplains, and Tishkofet/Life’s Door of Jerusalem are joining in sponsoring the first International Jewish Healing Retreat for couples in which one partner has been through serious illness.  Roughly 30 couples from the U.S. will join 30 Israeli couples in a five-day experience in the Galilee and Jerusalem, July 6-11, 2008. Weaving together workshops on subjects such as Improving Communication and Managing Stress, lectures and courses by leading medical and spiritual care professionals, massage therapy, visits to sites of historical and religious power as well as natural beauty, the celebration of Israel’s 60th year of independence, and more, it promises to be a most unusual experience of growth and healing.

For more information in New York City, please call

Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW at 212-399-2320, ext 215.