Exit Strategy

Plaza@25: Building, Honoring and Serving Community

When Plaza Jewish Community Chapel opened in 2001, it immediately began to elevate conversations on end-of-life issues and practices, and to create...

A Holocaust Survivor’s Legacy of Life

As a young boy during WWII, Sami Steigmann spent three years in a Nazi labor camp at Mogilev-Podolsky, in the Transnistria region of Ukraine. Now living...

Raised Outside Jewish Faith, Now Learning Jewish End-of-Life Traditions

For those raised outside of the Jewish faith, learning about Jewish traditions — including those surrounding end-of-life — is key to nourishing...

Plaza@25: The Vision and The Impact

Plaza Jewish Community Chapel opened in 2021 with a nonprofit model elevating dignity, affordability, and education on end-of-life issues, and over...

Storytelling, on the Path through Grief

Telling our stories — and listening to those of others — connects us through common journeys, often difficult ones, grief included.

In a...