END-OF-LIFE TORAH GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT
With the benefit of decades of experience, deep sensitivity and devotion, CMC provides patients and families with needed assistance and crucial support to navigate complex and difficult end-of-life issues in accordance with their individual practical needs and the exquisitely sensitive perspective of Jewish faith and halacha. • Serving as liaison between family members and the […]
END-OF-LIFE MUSICAL ENRICHMENT
CMC’s Rabbi William Z. & Eda Bess Novick Z”L Musical Enrichment Program provides live musical renditions at bedside for patients in hospitals, care facilities, and private homes. • Musical enrichment is believed to help induce relaxation, promote healing, improve mood, enhance mental functioning, and foster an overall sense of well-being. • Particularly recommended for end-of-life […]
KAVOD ACHARON
Enhancing a dying patient’s sacred final moments: • Traditional prayers • Time-honored customs For more information or in case of an emergency please call this designated phone number: 773-482-2888
ASSISTANCE WITH JEWISH BURIALS
CMC offers individualized spiritual counsel, practical guidance and financial assistance (for eligible families) to ensure that the deceased receives a dignified, traditional Jewish burial.
KADDISH RECITATION
• Recital of Kaddish three times daily throughout the prescribed eleven- month period. • Recital of Kaddish at the three services on the annual Yahrtzeit.
YAHRTZEIT AND YIZKOR SERVICES
• Recital of Yizkor on the appropriate Jewish Holidays. • Annual notification of designated family members of the forthcoming Yahrtzeit date.
BELLOWS FAMILY NATIONAL CRISIS INTERVENTION AND BEREAVEMENT SERVICES: PROJECT CHAI
Crisis Intervention, Trauma and Bereavement services that provide direct intervention, guidance and consultation as well as community education in facing the challenges of illness, loss, tragedy and natural disasters affecting individuals, families, congregations, schools and the broader community.
JEWISH BURIAL
A Kevuras Yisrael, Jewish burial, is critical and yet not always straightforward to carry out. Agudah is here for people in their time of grief, with sensitive halachic guidance and financial support for arranging Jewish burial.
KOSHER MEALS FOR HOSPITAL PATIENTS AND FAMILIES
The Chicago Center Kitchen works throughout the week to cook up warm and delicious dinners and Shabbos meal packages for families and individuals who are in need in many ways. From families who are postpartum, post-hospitalization, in the process of moving, sitting shiva, isolating due to COVID-19, in a financially difficult situation, or any extenuating […]
Kesser Avrohom ben Chaim HaLevi Sifre Tanchumim (Tzvia Pitzele)
Kesser Avrohom ben Chaim HaLevi Sifre Tanchumim (Tzvia Pitzele)