PRESS/BOOK REVIEWS

1) “Program on death awareness receives award”, Canadian Jewish News, 7/7/88

2)  “Jewish afterlife explored”, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, 8/10/91

3) “Rabbi’s book gives new slant to the afterlife”, Jewish Exponent, 12/2/94

4) “Reworking Jewish Tradition”, Montreal Gazette, 6/10/95

5) “The Afterlife”, Inside Magazine – A Quarterly of Jewish Life and Style, Fall 1996

6) “Peering Beyond Life”, Atlanta Jewish Times, 11/29/96

7) “Making the case for a Jewish afterlife”, Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/2/99

8) “Jewish scholar to address life after death”, Valley News Dispatch (Pittsburgh), 10/28/99

9)  “Coffee, tea or death?” Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/6/13 (Story on Death Café)

10)” Just You Wait: New ways to talk about death and dying” (WHYY, Maiken Scott), 12/31/13

11) Simcha Paull Raphael Scholar-in-Residence, Buffalo Jewish Review, 3/7/14

12) “Remembering Reb Zalman, my teacher and friend, Jewish Exponent, 7/7/14

13) “A counselor aims to revive the afterlife”, New Jersey Jewish News, 1/14/15

14)“Reclaiming, revisiting Jewish afterlife and why it matters”, The Jewish Chronicle (Pittsburgh) 3/5/15

15)  “Yizkor and the Mourners’ Path – the Personal Odyssey of a Grief Therapist”, Jewish Exponent, 4/1/15

16) “Podcasts Aren’t Just for Millenials”, San Diego Jewish Journal, 8/29/16

17) “Jewish Views of the Afterlife”,  Jewish Independent, Vancouver, 11/16/16

18) Reb Simcha Raphael to Discuss “Judaism and the Mysteries of Life, Death and the World Beyond”, Las Vegas Israelite, 1/13/17

20) “What happens after we die?” Jewish Exponent, 6/20/19

21) “Jewish Views of Death and of Afterlife”, Jewish Leader (Eastern Connecticut/Western Rhode Island), 9/24/21

22) Selections  from Bittersweet – How Sorry and Longing Make us Whole by Susan Cain, 2022

23) “What Does Judaism Believe About the Afterlife?” by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar, Newsletter of Society Hill Synagogue, Philadelphia, PA, February 29, 2024

BOOK REVIEWS
1) “Jews and the Afterlife” Review of Jewish Views of the Afterlife by Bernard Baskin, Canadian Jewish News, 2/22/96

2) Review of Jewish Views the Afterlife, Gnosis Magazine, Spring 1996

3) Review of Jewish Views of the Afterlife by Reena Zeidman, H-Judaic H-Net Reviews, October 1997

4) Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Book Review by Beverley Brodsky,  Journal of Near-Death Studies, Summer 1998.

5)Review of Jewish Views of the Afterlife, 2nd ed. by Justin Jaron Lewis Studies, in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, vol. 40 (June 2011), 253-255

6) May the Angels Carry  You – Prayers and Meditations for the Deathbed, Book Review by Rabbi Jack Riemer, Palm Beach Journal, 9/28/16

7) “What do Jews believe about the afterlife?” Book Review of Jewish Views of the Afterlife, 3rd ed. by Harold Ivan Smith, Death Studies,(2019) Vol. 45, 4

8) Review of Jewish Views of the Afterlife, 3rd ed. by Kenneth Doka, Ph.D. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 2020

9)  Jewish End-of-Life Care in a Virtual Age: Our Tradition Reimagined,  Book Review by Rabbi Jack Riemer, Reform Judaism.Org, April 2021

10) Review of Jewish End-of-Life in a Virtual Age: Our Traditions Reimagined by Gary S. Fink, D. Min Omega – Journal of Death and Dying, 2022, Vol. 85 (1), 259-262.

PR MATERIALS

1) Simcha Raphael, Scholar-in-Residence Outlines

2) Simcha Raphael, Mini-Courses