Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Volunteers,Judaism)
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2024
April
22,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai is saluting its 3,700 volunteers this week, as part of National Volunteer Appreciation Week. Among the volunteers being celebrated are three generations of one family whose individual members have been wearing the Cedars-Sinai light …
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2022
September
20,
2022
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07:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
As the COVID-19 pandemic eases, many people are going back: back to work, back to school, back to normal lives.But one group that hasn’t gone back is the volunteers. Across the U.S., volunteer activity remains low, even as charitable giving has …
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2021
September
02,
2021
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
As the nation heads into the second Jewish High Holiday season during the COVID-19 pandemic, Cedars-Sinai Senior Rabbi and Director of Spiritual Care Jason Weiner, PhD, is thinking about renewal, a common theme during the holidays that call for …
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April
20,
2021
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06:13 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai sees more than 85,000 patients each year. Among the first to greet those patients and their loved ones–even during the coronavirus pandemic–are Cedars-Sinai’s …
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2020
December
11,
2020
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06:49 AM
America/Los_Angeles
For Cedars-Sinai's longstanding commitment to providing medical care and other support to survivors of the Holocaust, President and CEO Thomas M. Priselac has received the Outstanding Humanitarian Award from the American Society for Yad …
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September
15,
2020
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This Rosh Hashanah, even the shofar will be wearing a mask.
That is just one of the unconventional ways that the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is changing the way Rabbi Jason Weiner, PhD, and his team of chaplains at Cedars-Sinai will be …
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July
06,
2020
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
How does a religious congregation, which by definition brings groups of people close together in prayer and communion, navigate this tricky pandemic?
Cedars-Sinai chaplains have some of the answers. With expertise as healthcare insiders, they …
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April
22,
2020
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07:16 AM
America/Los_Angeles
What is it like being a chaplain on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic? The Cedars-Sinai Newsroom reached out to some of our #HealthcareHeroes to find out.
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February
12,
2020
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Around Cedars-Sinai, Susan Nicholson is known simply as "the heart lady."
That's because since 2013 Nicholson has been making and delivering roughly 50 crocheted hearts each week to patients, visitors and employees—anyone who …
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January
20,
2020
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Has the newly revealed baseball cheating scandal – especially the signal-stealing scheme by the Houston Astros that might have cost the Los Angeles Dodgers the 2017 World Series title – got you down? Are you feeling bluer than Dodger …
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2019
December
20,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Animal Planet recently featured Cedars-Sinai volunteer and employee Maureen Chin, MSN, RN, CPN, associate nursing director of Pediatric Services and her dog Marley, highlighting how therapy dogs can help decrease a patient’s pain and …
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December
12,
2019
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13:09 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Prominent Orthodox Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, PhD, made a pilgrimage of sorts Tuesday, when he visited Cedars-Sinai for the dedication of a complete set of the Talmud, the Jewish books of law and commentary.
"They told me that if I came, I …
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June
15,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Spectrum News 1 recently featured Cedars-Sinai volunteer Patricia Magicia Marquis, who prescribes a dose of magic to surprise and delight patients admitted to the medical center.
Marquis is one of three volunteers at Cedars-Sinai who …
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May
17,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
On the worst day of her life, Rebecca Woolf found comfort in the most unexpected way. As her husband lay dying in his hospital bed, the sound of a harp wafted in.
Intrigued, Woolf went into the hallway to chat briefly with the harpist, Una …
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May
02,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai volunteer Patricia Marquis, whose stage name is Patricia Magicia, uses magic for more than just entertainment. She uses her craft as a welcome distraction for patients facing an array of illnesses.
“I bring sunshine to people …
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April
29,
2019
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12:45 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Poway. New Zealand. Sri Lanka. Pittsburgh. Charleston.
When gun violence invades a house of worship, how can a community cope and heal from the trauma?
Jason Weiner, BCC, senior Rabbi and director of the Spiritual Care …
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April
29,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
As death closed in on the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, some of those coping amid the wretched conditions affirmed life in an extraordinary way: They operated a clandestine medical school.
By one estimate, as many as 500 students …
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2018
November
06,
2018
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15:10 PM
America/Los_Angeles
ABC 7 Eyewitness News recently attended the birthday celebration for Charles Selarz, a Cedars-Sinai volunteer who turned 100 years old this month.
Selarz is a Holocaust survivor who cheated death many times, enduring …
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October
30,
2018
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16:17 PM
America/Los_Angeles
It’s a Cedars-Sinai tradition: Families of babies being cared for in the Cedars-Sinai Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) have the opportunity to dress their tiny infants in specially made costumes for Halloween. The costumes are all hand-sewn …
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October
29,
2018
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16:06 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai Senior Rabbi Jason Weiner, BCC, led a solemn prayer vigil Monday afternoon for patients, staff members and visitors to mourn and to call for healing and hope following the Tree of Life synagogue shooting attack in Pittsburgh that left …
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July
12,
2018
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16:23 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Rabbi Jason Weiner, senior rabbi and director of Cedars-Sinai’s Spiritual Care Department, recently wrote a column published in the Jewish Journal that explained why the medical center recently developed a new Jewish Advance Healthcare …
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April
11,
2018
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10:40 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The first time George Berci heard a siren, he was 23 years old.
It was the summer of 1944, on the outskirts of Budapest, he was one of hundreds of Jewish conscripted laborers who were packed into a railroad car as human freight. They were bound …
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