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(added September 19, 2024) We are honored to share this special volume of readings, reflections, and images called Kol HaNeshamot — Voices of Jewish Spiritual Care:
Reflecting on October 7
. This curated collection of original articles includes submissions from spiritual care provider members from Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC) for our colleagues.

     These reflections are designed to bring a message of hope and possibility in light of the challenges of this past year as we turn toward the New Year ahead.

     We hope that you share these spiritual care insights with your community and that they may serve as a resource and as a source of inspiration in the time ahead.

     We invite you to print and share this with your wider communities.

Please CLICK HERE to read Kol HaNeshamot — Voices of Jewish Spiritual Care

(Added 06/19/24): NAJC ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. NAJC is thrilled to announce that, as of July 1, 2024, Allison A. Atterberry, NAJC’s current Interim Executive Director, will become the new Executive Director of NAJC Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains. In a release on June 4, 2024, NAJC President Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn and NAJC Immediate Past President Rabbi Dr. Joseph Ozarowski praised Allison for her various roles in NAJC since 2018: “Allison brings a deep love of NAJC as a wealth of experience in both the non-profit sector and the field of healthcare.” To read the entire announcement, please CLICK HERE. You can learn more about Allison on the MEET OUR BOARD page (link at the top of this Home Page).

(added November 16, 2023) “The Strategic Partners in Spiritual Care, in partnership with the Association of Muslim Chaplains, have formed a task force to address Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim bias. This group will convene in November with the goal of providing a platform of support to our members to navigate the reality of Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim bias in chaplaincy. To view the complete statement, please CLICK HERE.”

 

An NAJC Guiding Value:  

“These are the obligations without measure …

To visit the sick …

To console the bereaved …

To perform acts of loving kindness …”

(From the morning liturgy, “Eilu D’varim,”

Based on Talmud, Shabbat, 127a, Translations excerpted from

Siddur Lev Shalom and Gates of Prayer)