Join the Temple Sholom community to welcome in Shabbat featuring special guest, Rabbi Suzanne Offit, Board Certified Chaplain, speaking on "Suicide IS a Jewish Issue," either in person or online.

Rabbi Suzanne Offit was ordained at the Hebrew College Rabbinical School, and through NAJC, is a Board Certified Chaplain. She served as a community rabbi and Palliative Care chaplain in post-acute services at Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston for 15 years. 

During the many layers upon layers of loss and trauma during the COVID pandemic, Rabbi Offit accepted an invitation to step into suicide response as her professional focus. Both personal and professional experiences with suicide loss energized her interest and research this area. Rabbi Offit and Marjie Sokol, a social worker at JF&CS of Greater Boston, created a Jewish Healing communal education program for the Greater Boston area, and with Zoom expanding their work nationally. They also co-facilitate a Suicide Loss Survivor bereavement group. 

Rabbi Offit offers support and learning to rabbis, rabbinical students, chaplains and community leaders, and grief support to suicide loss survivor families and communities.

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To join us via Zoom, contact Stacy at stacy@sholomchicago.org to request the link.

Registration is not required to attend Shabbat in person. All in-person protocols must be followed.

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