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NeshamaCast host Rabbi Ed Bernstein travels to Israel and interviews Jewish chaplains from Israel and across North America  attending a rabbinic conference in Israel.  

Chaplains interviewed in this episode are, in order of appearance:  
Rabbi Mary Brett Koplen, BCC, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Rabbi Barbara Speyer, BCC, VA Medical Center, Los Angeles

Mati Halperin, CPE student, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, Kashouvot: The Center for Spiritual Care in Israel 

Rabbi Beth Naditch, BCC, ACPE, Hebrew Senior Life, Boston

Rabbi Naomi Kalish, PhD, BCC, ACPE, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

Rabbi Yonatan Rudnick, Community Chaplain, Jewish Family Services, Kansas City

Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz, BCC, Congregation Kol Haneshamah, Jerusalem, Co-founder of Kashouvot.

During the interview with Moti Halperin, listeners can occasionally hear the voice of Rabbi Ilana Garber, Director of Global Rabbinic Development of the Rabbinical Assembly. She and Rabbi Bernstein were matched with Moti for a tour of Ichilov Hospital. 

Special acknowledgment to Rabbi Valerie Stessin, BCC, Director of Kashouvot and Rabbi Mira Rivera, BCC, JCC of Harlem. Rabbi Stessin planned the chaplain programming for the RA Convention, and Rabbi Rivera was a participant. See NeshamaCast feed for their full interviews with NeshamaCast. 

Reference was made multiple times to Natal Global Resilience. 

Rabbi Beth Naditch refers to the terror attack of February 25, 1996 in which JTS rabbinical student Matthew Eisenfeld and his girlfriend Sara Duker were murdered in a suicide bombing of the Number 18 Bus in Jerusalem. See the book edited by Rabbi Edward Bernstein: Love Finer Than Wine: The Writings of Matthew Eisenfeld and Sara Duker.

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