Sunday school and other activities and events involving education at United Hebrew Congregation Terre Haute
I have enjoyed my continuing involvement with UHC religious school, since my daughter, Jennifer, is teaching there. I find our CHAI curriculum can lead students of all ages to think and reflect.
Religious school students are aiming to contribute tzedakah funds toward one good cause per month. During February, they bought three trees to be planted in Israel.
Purim begins the evening of March 20. We hope everyone enjoys the holiday — and the hamentaschen!
A central practice of Judaism is studying Torah, which includes the commentaries and Midrash and sometimes other topics grounded in our sacred texts.
Recently, I began subscribing to the My Jewish Learning series on studying Torah.
Yes, you can read on your own, but the dialogue in any learning situation is what makes learning richer.
This month, I want to speak more about advance directives, also known as medical power of attorney, or appointment of health care representative, as it is more commonly labeled.
These are a statutorily created documents used by medical providers to permit a person or persons to make decisions about health care.
Like other powers of attorney, this document releases the doctor or hospital from liability for allowing someone, not you, to make health care decisions. It also permits this individual to receive personal information about your health care that would otherwise be private, and thus inaccessible to them.
Continuing my series on routine planning to assist family and friends in the event of incapacity or death, this month’s article focuses on the creation and use of a “power of attorney.”
People often assume that the phrase power of attorney has something to do with a lawyer. The term “attorney” often involves lawyers, but it actually applies to persons authorized to act on behalf of another.
So, for our purposes here today, keep in mind that lawyers need not be involved at all. Which is not to say they should not be involved, but only that it is not required.