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Authors » L » Jay Litvin
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Jay Litvin was born in Chicago in 1944. He moved to Israel in 1993 to serve as medical liaison for Chabad's Children of Chernobyl program, and took a leading role in airlifting children from the areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster; he also founded and directed Chabad's Terror Victims program in Israel. Jay passed away in April of 2004 after a valiant four-year battle with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and is survived by his wife, Sharon, and their seven children. |
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Mirrors
By Jay Litvin
My hair, thank G-d, is growing back. Hair, beard, eyebrows, eyelashes, the works. My color has returned, or at least transformed from a yellow brown pallor to a more healthy tone. I'm lookin' good. At least that's what everyone says...
Society & Living » Voices » Endurance » Mirrors
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Faith
By Jay Litvin
I picture it pulsating somehow, like a lighthouse, like a heartbeat, like the rhythmic in and out, on and off, here and there, now and then, dark and light of life
Spirituality » Short Insights » Other Authors » Faith
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Compassion
By Jay Litvin
This is what compassion does: it simply comes to say hello, with kindness and grace; to be a companion in whatever circumstance presents itself; to banish loneliness, and if not, to accompany the lonely in their solitude
Spirituality » Essays » Compassion
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My Body and Me
By Jay Litvin
There was no longer this "prison" or "vessel" or "garment" of the body. There was no longer soul and body as separate entities. What I was experiencing was in contradiction with all the language that I'd read and heard through the years
Lifecycles » Death & Mourning » Library » Voices » My Body and Me
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School Conferences
By Jay Litvin
"I present the material, but your child doesn't seem to get it... Have you considered private tutoring?" Why do I get the impression everyone -- the child, the parents, the home environment -- is to blame, except for the teacher?
Society & Living » Parenting » By Jay Litvin » School Conferences
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The Children of Terror
By Jay Litvin
With the spread of terrorism, our children are far too often graphically exposed to the worst of what life and humans offer. What can we do to help them deal with these horrific events?
Society & Living » Current Events » News Archives » The Children of Terror
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Two Rabbis Came to the Door
By Jay Litvin
In Israel, during the Temple Era, there were signposts at all the crossroads pointing toward the “cities of refuge” where a person who had accidentally killed someone could go and live in safety from retribution. One day I met two such signposts...
Society & Living » Voices » On Being Jewish » Two Rabbis Came to the Door
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Are We Disposable?
By Jay Litvin
In today's world, we're told that the faster and fuller we "carry on with our lives" after we lose someone, the healthier we are. Does this mean that we're all disposable and replaceable? Can our loved ones laugh so quickly after we're gone?
Lifecycles » Death & Mourning » Library » Voices » Are We Disposable?
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Priorities
By Jay Litvin
It is a journey into memories of days lost or at least misplaced. Sometimes it takes every ounce of courage I have to not turn them away, to allow them to wrench my gut and heart with shame and regret and pass through my body like a wave of fire...
Lifecycles » Death & Mourning » Library » Voices » Priorities
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Anger
By Jay Litvin
It’s stronger than you, buddy. You have to know that. It’s stronger and when it can’t burst out of your chest or squeeze through the spaces of your rib cage or rip your heart into little pieces, it finds another route...
Society & Living » Voices » Days of our Lives » Anger
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