Healing Together: How Those in Trauma Provide Care for Others
Part of our spring learning series, Israel at a Crossroads—Expanding the Conversation
Monday, May 12, 2025
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
Online
With Rabbi Naomi Kalish, Harold and Carole Wolfe Director of the Center for Pastoral Education, JTS, and Rabbi Annabelle Tenzer, Chaplain at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem
How do individuals experiencing trauma find the strength to support others in crisis? Join Rabbi Naomi Kalish, Harold and Carole Wolfe Director of the Center for Pastoral Education at JTS, in conversation with Rabbi Annabelle Tenzer, chaplain at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem. Together, they will explore how trauma survivors can also serve as caregivers and highlight key organizations working to provide emotional and spiritual support. This conversation will offer insights into resilience, compassion, and communal care in times of crisis.
If you have previously registered for another session in this series, your registration admits you to all sessions in the series, and you may attend as many as you’d like.
About the Speakers
Rabbi Naomi Kalish is the Harold and Carole Wolfe Director of the Center for Pastoral Education and assistant professor of Pastoral Education. Prior to coming to JTS, Rabbi Kalish taught clinical pastoral education (CPE) at New York–Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) to students from diverse religious, denominational, national, and cultural backgrounds. Rabbi Kalish has served on the Interprofessional Education Faculty at Columbia University Medical Center, where she has taught a course, Spirituality and Healthcare, to students in diverse healthcare educational programs. She has taught chaplaincy and pastoral care courses and programs for the Academy for Jewish Religion, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Yeshivat Maharat, and JTS.
Rabbi Annabelle Herciger-Tenzer serves as a chaplain at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, where she offers spiritual care to patients, families, and staff. She previously worked at the hospice of the French Hospital in Jerusalem, supporting individuals and families at life’s most tender moments. Ordained as Rabbi at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem where she certified in spiritual care, she offers an approach grounded in Jewish tradition and enriched by decades of personal and professional experience.
About the Series
Mondays, April 28–May 19, 2025
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
This series builds on the discussions from JTS’s Israel at the Crossroads convening, bringing JTS alumni into conversation about the evolving challenges of Israeli identity, culture, and collective resilience. Through explorations of art, spirituality, and national memory, we will consider how Israeli society navigates questions of belonging, pluralism, and meaning in this complex moment. By engaging voices from across disciplines, Expanding the Conversation seeks to illuminate the ways individuals and communities are shaping Israel’s cultural and spiritual landscape today.
