Some 1,200 families will soon finish saying the Mourner’s Kaddish for their loved ones who were murdered on Simchat Torah, October 7. The custom is to recite the Kaddish prayer three times daily for ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — In his most recent novel, “kaddish.com,” Nathan Englander imagines a website used by a character — encumbered by Jewish guilt — to hire someone to say the traditional mourner’s prayer ...

In The Patient, Alan tries to get Sam to have some empathy for Elias’ family. He tells him about the Kaddish, a prayer that Jewish people say after someone dies. Sam asks if he should say it, and Alan ...

(JTA) — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the largest newspaper serving the Pennsylvania city’s metropolitan area, printed a part of the Jewish mourner’s prayer in Hebrew as its front-page headline. The ...

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 ...

A painted rock found Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, part of a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, to the 11 people killed during worship ...

Israel’s Chief Rabbis, Rabbi David Yosef and Rabbi Kalman Ber, published a letter to Jewish communities in Israel and around the world ahead of the Fast of the Tenth of Tevet, which was designated as ...

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 ...

Yair Volansky today accompanied his son, Sgt. Aviaad Elchanan Volansky, to his final resting place at Mount Herzl. During the ...