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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

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  • 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

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