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Meetings

Santa Fe Doorways meets on the second Thursday of each month. Time is always allotted during the meeting for lively discussion. All presentations are free and open to the public.
Meetings are held at Brookdale Senior Living Facility from 11:45 AM-1:00 PM. (until we can meet again in person, meetings will continue via Zoom)

Address: 640 Alta Vista St, Santa Fe
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Upcoming Meetings



Thursday, June 8th, 11:45 – 1 pm
Online via Zoom (link below)


Medical Aid in Dying

Presenter: Rabbi Jack Shlachter

On April 8, 2021, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act into law which makes medical aid in dying (MAiD) available to the terminally ill in New Mexico, if they so choose.  Medical aid in dying allows a terminally ill, mentally capable adult with a prognosis of six months or less to live, the option to request, obtain and self-administer medication to die peacefully, if and when they choose.  In this discussion, Rabbi Shlachter will share some Jewish texts from antiquity through the present which offer a spectrum of Jewish attitudes towards MAiD.

 Jack Shlachter is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for over thirty years with much briefer stints at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, the Atomic Energy Agency, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, the latter two based in Vienna, Austria.  In parallel, Jack was ordained as a rabbi in 1995.  He was the rabbi and spiritual leader for the Jewish congregation in Los Alamos for many years, was the rabbi in Center Moriches, NY, during his years at Brookhaven, and now serves as rabbi of HaMakom, a congregation in Santa Fe, NM as well as the Los Alamos Jewish Center.  He has also provided itinerant rabbinic support to far-flung Jewish communities including those in Vienna, Austria, and Beijing, China.

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www.physicsrabbi.com


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Past Meetings 2023
  • January,  Ceremony on Grief & Loss, ChrisTina Simek
  • February, My Life Through the Seasons, Karin Lubin
  • March, Changes in Cancer Care, Jennifer Porter & Janet Smith
  • April, The Latest Developments in Palliative Care,  Janet Smith, RN
  • May, Cannabis as an Herbal Medicine, Len Goodman
Past Meetings 2022
  • January,  Mobile Medical Care, Joel Rosen
  • March, Advanced Directives and End-of-life Options, Janet Smith, RN
  • May, “Normal Aging Versus Not-Normal Aging", Laura Hendrie
  • July, "Normal Aging Versus Dementia Part Two: Communications, Laura Hendrie
  • August, "Disposing of Our Personal Effects", Tom Brown
  • October, "Ultimate Precision", play by Robert Benjamin
  • November, "Quality-of-Life As We Age",  Karen Milstein, Eileen Joyce & Janet Smith
  • December, "Getting Through the Holidays With Comfort and Joy", Eileen Joyce

Past Meetings 2021
  • ​January, Ceremony led by ChrisTina Maestas-Simek
  • February, Resilience, Eileen Joyce
  • March, Brain Health, David Davis
  • April, Group dicussion on NDE's
  • May, Medical Aid in Dying, Barak Wolff 
  • ​June, Creating More Quality of Life
  • July,  Seniors Coping with the Pandemic, Robert Benjamin
  • Aug, How Covid Has Affected Our Lives, Eileen Joyce
  • Sept. Can Cannabis be of Value, Len Goodman
  • Oct. Medical Aid in Dying: Our New Law, How It’s Going, and Where It Fits In, Barak Wolff
  • ​Nov. OLD PHOTOGRAPHS:  From Hidden Boxes to Living Legacy, Karen Lievense 
  • Dec. Not Planning to Die with The Kominsky Method, Gail Rubin

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