Articles

 

Scholarly Articles:

• Is Prayer Ever Futile? Three Contemporary Perspectives(opens in new tab)

• Guide to Filling Out a POLST Form in Accordance with Halakhah(opens in new tab)

• Should Tzitzit Be Worn In Or Out?(opens in new tab)

• Is It Proper to pray with a minyan on an airplane?(opens in new tab)

• Judaism and burial in a mausoleum(opens in new tab)

•  Jewish Law and Artificial heart deactivation (opens in new tab)

• Guidance on the Loss of a Baby or Fetus - Hakira Journal(opens in new tab)

• The Beneficial Role of Spiritual Counseling in Heart Failure Patients(opens in new tab)

• Is One Permitted to Daven in the Chapel at Cedars-Sinai(opens in new tab)

• Conscientious Objection: A Talmudic Paradigm Shift(opens in new tab)

• Universal Healthcare Rights & Judaism(opens in new tab)

• Brain Death: Mitigating Conflict - AMA Journal of Ethics(opens in new tab)

• Jewish Values in Medical Decision-making for Unrepresented Patients: A Ritualized Approach(opens in new tab)

• What Does it Mean to be a Jewish Hospital in America Today?

• Prenatal genetic counseling needs assessment of Orthodox Jewish clergy

• A Jewish Approach to Anti-Aging Interventions TRADITION 

• AI, Automation & Unemployment TRADITION

• Chaplains as Interprofessional Healthcare Team Members

Shorter "Popular" Pieces:

• Must-Know Words and Phrases Related to End-of-Life Care(opens in new tab)

• Death vs. Brain Death in Judaism(opens in new tab)

• How to Give a Jewish Eulogy (Hesped)(opens in new tab)

• A Guide for Jewish Mourners(opens in new tab)

• How to do Bikkur Cholim(opens in new tab)

• Power and Potential of Jewish ritual in the Hospital(opens in new tab)

• Showing Up: What I learned but didn’t know during rabbinical(opens in new tab) sc(opens in new tab)hool(opens in new tab)

• When a Jew Requests Assisted Suicide(opens in new tab)

• A Jewish Hospital Considers its Past to Move Into the Future(opens in new tab)

• City Spirit 2012 Expectant Parent class(opens in new tab)

• Does Hashem Want Us To Be Happy?(opens in new tab)

• Rabbi Weiner’s Innovative New Jewish Medical Ethics Class(opens in new tab)

• The Talmud and Second Chances(opens in new tab)

• How to Visit the Sick When You Can’t Visit the Sick(opens in new tab)

• Jewish Ethical Questions Around Developing a Coronavirus Vaccine(opens in new tab)

• Better to be safe than in the ICU: COVID op-ed(opens in new tab)

• Telechaplaincy(opens in new tab)

• Vaccine Hesitancy and the Jewish Community(opens in new tab)

• Kindness to Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Israel’s Jewish Hospitals A Bastion Of Halacha And Science

• Dementia in Halacha 

• AI in Medicine: Halachic Reflections on Emerging Challenges

• Prayer in Times of Illness

• Mission to the Jewish Community of Ethiopia

Rabbi Weiner Quoted in the Press:

• LA Times(opens in new tab)

• LA Times II(opens in new tab)

• LA Times III(opens in new tab)

• NY Times(opens in new tab)

• NY Times II(opens in new tab)

• New Jersey Jewish Standard(opens in new tab)

• The Forward(opens in new tab)

• The Forward II 

• The Forward III

• U.S. News & World Report(opens in new tab)

• Mishpacha II(opens in new tab)

• LA Daily News(opens in new tab)

• Tablet Magazine(opens in new tab)

• Tablet Magazine II(opens in new tab)

• Washington Post(opens in new tab)

• Times of Israel(opens in new tab)

• Yeshiva World(opens in new tab)

• Jewish Journal(opens in new tab)

• Jewish Journal II

• Jewish Journal III(opens in new tab)

• Jewish Journal IV(opens in new tab)

• Jewish Journal V(opens in new tab)

• Jewish Journal VI(opens in new tab)

• Jewish Journal VII

• Jewish Journal VIII (Cover Article)

• Jewish Standard(opens in new tab)

• Jerusalem Post(opens in new tab)

• NPR(opens in new tab)

• SoCal Jewish News(opens in new tab)

• Health News Digest

• Money Geek

• Toronto.com

• Jewish Link

• LA Jewish Home

• NextAvenue