Gain clarity in life’s healthcare choices

The best time to start navigating your future health needs is today.

Ematai :: If Not Now, When?

Gain clarity in life’s healthcare choices

The best time to start navigating your future health needs is today.

Ematai :: If Not Now, When?

Patients and their families are often called upon to make difficult choices in hospital settings or as they face a health crisis. Ematai helps them become informed decision makers to make wise decisions based both on Jewish wisdom and the most up-to-date clinical expertise.
Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner
Whether you are contemplating a distant future, or suddenly facing a crisis, Ematai can help you make informed healthcare decisions consistent with your Jewish values. Ematai offers help to the entire Jewish community- whatever your level of affiliation and whatever the situation – with making these difficult choices for ourselves and our loved ones.
Kim Pimley, Board Member
Dilemmas about mortality impact our personal life journey, communal experience, and public affairs. Judaism is not afraid to confront deep questions regarding death and dying. Ematai seeks to represent Judaism with a wise and nuanced voice on these sensitive matters.
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody, Executive Director
People mistakenly think that palliative care is only for end-of-life treatment, and that Judaism always prioritizes prolongation of life over alleviation of suffering. Such misunderstandings can cause unnecessary suffering. Ematai helps dispel these misconceptions, and encourages the involvement of palliative support from the start
Dr. Tamar Rubinstein
Ematai fills a void by addressing the most complex issues of organ donation and end of life care in a way that facilitates essential dialogue between patients, families, physicians, and rabbis. It serves an integral role for both the Jewish and medical communities.
Rabbi Edward Reichman, M.D.
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We mourn the passing of Or Eshkar z"l, who died this week after being a terror victim in Tel Aviv two weeks ago. His family nobly donated his liver lobe, heart, liver, kidneys, lung. https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/03/21/victim-of-tel-aviv-shooting-dies-11-days-after-attack/?fbclid=IwAR0OOuaSq7qWgGOWREFqmoP9KQtWiLlSoZpVfXmu6dB3Fs-C_5I3TBD9MsM

Important study about end-of-life care interventions where hospice care would be more appropriate https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/health/end-of-life-care-hospice.html

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