For Orthodox men, the commitment to recite Kaddish with a minyan multiple times a day for 11 months can be logistically challenging. For Birnbach, it was herculean. My first thought when I read the ...
Kaddish for October 7th is the Kaddish we will never say. It is the Kaddish of mothers who will no longer see their children. It is a Kaddish for parents who do not know if their children are dead or ...
“Yitgadal v’yitkadash…” the words of the Kaddish have echoed through synagogues for centuries, traditionally intoned by a Jewish man in mourning during a prayer service, with nine other men — at ...
Sholem Aleichim has a wonderful story about Kaddish related in his “Railroad Stories.” (Tales that examine human nature and modernity as seen by men and women riding the trains from town to town.) A ...
In late August, The Sisterhood launched a series examining the role of women in Jewish mourning traditions. Grieving for a loved one is fiercely personal; doing so as a woman, guided by Jewish laws ...
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Some rabbis are encouraging internet-based solutions to hold us over, but a campus rabbi writes that those solutions could come with a significant cost. WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) — Like so many others, I ...
The Tenth of Tevet is not just a fast day mourning the destruction of the temple but a day to mourn those for whom the date of death is unknown. (JTA) — Today is an unusual day on the Jewish calendar, ...
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