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Healing WatersSpiritual Support Groups Focus on Women Living With CancerWomen seeking a meaningful Jewish experience to facilitate their spiritual journey from cancer treatment to wellness are invited to participate in Healing Waters, an intimate support group offered in a three-part series combining study, ritual and mikvah immersion. Supported by the Jewish Women's Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit, and the Center for Jewish Healing under the auspices of Jewish Family Service, the program is facilitated by Rabbi Lauren Berkun, Rabbinic Fellow at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Ruth Lerman, M.D. of the Breast Care Center at William Beaumont Hospital and Rachel Yoskowitz, BSN, MPH, Director of the Center of Jewish Healing. Why engage in the ritual of mikvah for healing therapy? Yoskowitz explains, "Mikvah is a ceremony of change. From the moment one enters its waters to the moment one emerges, the mikvah serves to alter a woman's status. The mikvah is a powerful symbol of rebirth and very meaningful to women living with breast cancer who seek a return to life and healing following the trauma of their therapy." Groups are formed on a monthly basis and are limited in size to enhance the experience for each participant. For more information or to register, please contact Rachel Yoskowitz at 248-559-1500, ext 275. Or visit online at www.cjhdetroit.org. About the leaders:Rabbi Laurent Berkun, a graduate of Princeton University, received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She has written and taught extensively on the topic of mikvah, and serves as a full time rabbi for KOLLOT: Voices of Learning, an innovative program of adult Jewish learning sponsored by The Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Ruth Lerman, a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Wayne State School of Medicine, is a board certified gerontologist and founding president of the Michigan Chapter of the American Geriatrics Society. Her career and life journey were transformed following her diagnosis of a second breast cancer. She has studied mind body medicine and spiritual healing, and published numerous essays on her experiences as a physician and patient. Rachel Yoskowitz, a graduate of the Sinai Hospital School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University and of the University of Texas School of Public Health, has practiced clinical nursing and taught surgical nursing at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. For the past nine years, she has been at the Jewish Family Service as the Director of Immigration and Citizenship Services. She is the founding director of the Center for Jewish Healing.
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