The Outstretched Arm

From 1991 to 2010, The Jewish Healing Center, which became part of The Jewish Board in 1999, published a series of newsletters called The Outstretched Arm that helped define Jewish Healing and how to achieve wholeness through it. This was done by looking within Judaism and the Jewish community to develop resources, activities, environments, and structures to help Jews heal. The path to this discovery included understanding and retrieving healing traditions and inspiring and creating new ones.

Below is an archive of these newsletters, so future generations can learn from them and use them on their own paths to healing.

1991

Fall Issue: Drawing the Map

1992

Spring Issue: The Haggadah and Healing

Fall Issue: Sukkot: Redemption, the Harvest, and Healing

Winter Issue: Letters to (and From!) God

1993

Fall Issue: To Heal the World: To Heal Ourselves

1994

Spring Issue: Feasting for Freedom: The Unasked Questions

Fall Issue: Completing the Circle

1995

Spring Issue: A Passover Journal

Fall Issue: A Journey Into Healing

1996

Spring Issue: Rafaeinu

Fall Issue: Great Miracles: Eight Healing Lessons from/for Hanukkah

1997

Spring Issue: Lahma Anya – Bread of Affliction

Fall Issue: Rosh HaShannah: New Beginning

1998

Spring Issue: Counting Out the Omer

Fall Issue: Sukkot: Welcome, Honored Guest

1999

Spring Issue: What Are the Questions?

Fall Issue: Black Fire Upon White Fire

Winter Issue: A Counting Hallel for Hanukkah

2000

Fall Issue 1: Forgiveness and Healing

Fall Issue 2: The Masks of Purim

2001

Winter Issue: Jewish Principles of Care for the Dying

2002

Winter Issue: Caretaking

2004

Spring Issue: The Crisis of Divorce: From Darkness to Light

2005

Spring Issue: Shavu’ot and Healing: When Heaven and Earth are Joined

2006

Summer Issue: Shabbat and Healing: An Issue Devoted to Shabbat

2008

Summer Issue: Addiction, Recovery and Jewish Healing

2010

Summer Issue: A Loss Worthy of Grief