AJMA "Processing Group" with NAJC Chaplains

This is a confidential space for you to share your thoughts, feelings, and experiences with people who care, who understand, and who will listen. Our Board Certified Chaplains, Rabbi Dr. Joseph S. Ozarowski and Rabbi Lynn Liberman, are trained to provide a healing space as we approach the yahrzeit of October 7 and the High Holy Days.

NAJC Immediate Past President Rabbi Dr. Joseph S. Ozarowski is Rabbinic Counselor and Chaplain for JCFS Chicago where he manages the Jewish Community Chaplaincy program. A Board-Certified Chaplain, he received his undergraduate degree from Loyola University of Chicago, his rabbinic ordination from Skokie’s Hebrew Theological College and his doctorate from Lancaster (PA) Theological Seminary. He has served on the Jewish Federation of Chicago (JUF) Board and on the North Shore University HealthCare System Institutional Ethics Committee. Ozarowski’s first book, To Walk in God’s Ways - Jewish Pastoral Perspectives on Illness and Bereavement is considered a standard in the field of Judaism and Pastoral Care. He is married to Ashira (nee Rapoport), lives in Skokie IL, and has four children and nineteen grandchildren.

NAJC President-Elect Rabbi Lynn Liberman, BCC, works as the Jewish Community Chaplain of the Twin Cities. Ordained in 1993 from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Lynn worked over 20 years in congregations before moving into full-time chaplaincy.   In addition to her Community Chaplain position, Lynn also works as a Per Diem Chaplain at two area Hospitals, including a Trauma One Center, and has been a volunteer Police/Fire Chaplain for 25 years. Lynn has proudly served on the NAJC board for several years.  She and her spouse live in St. Paul, MInnesota.