Our Services

• Rabbinic care, chaplaincy, counseling, and spiritual direction at home, in hospitals, hospices, or care facilities
• Spiritual support groups for patients, caregivers, and the bereaved
• Healing and memorial services and individualized Jewish rituals
• Education and training for synagogues, Jewish organizations, healthcare workers, and volunteers
• Resource Center services, offering an extensive library on death, bereavement, and illness
• Volunteer programs providing visitors for hospital and senior facilities, and Jewish end-of-life/hospice care

Our Programs

In addition to our sevices, the Healing Center collaborates with other Jewish organizations to provide the following programs.

• Bikkur Cholim - trains and supports volunteers who visit the ill and bereaved
• Jewish Healing Month - a celebration held each May
• Mitzvah Havurot for the Elderly - trains and supports volunteers who visit nursing home elders and lead Shabbat services
• Mental Illness Outreach and Education - a synagogue-based program to increase support
• Kol Haneshamah - Jewsih end-of-life and hospice care volunteer program
• Grief and Growing - a healing weekend for bereaved individuals and families

Who is eligible

Open to anyone facing or working with illness, dying, or grief, and seeking a Jewish perspective.

Payment Information

Fees are sliding scale, and all are served regardless of affiliation or ability to pay.

The Healing Center was established in 1991 as the nation’s first Jewish healing center, and joined Institute on Aging in 2004. BAJHC receives generous support from the Jewish Federation of San Francisco; the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties, Mount Zion Health Fund; and various foundations and individuals. Services are offered regardless of synagogue affiliation or the ability to pay.