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, ...

I shed many tears during my year of saying Kaddish. Most of them had nothing to do with the loss of my father. It was in the music that I missed him most, during the Friday night service, when the ...

There are five kinds of Kaddish. In this article we will discuss two of them, Kaddish D’rabanan and Kaddish Shalem. These are both extended versions of the Chatzi Kaddish, which we discussed in Part 2 ...

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 ...

Judaism has rituals for almost every activity in life. These rituals link us to our past, binding us to our ancestors. They bring a sense of order to our present lives, helping to shape our identities ...

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 ...

This prayer put in the mouth of the mourner begs God to speed the day when God is, in fact, great and holy. Today is an unusual day on the Jewish calendar, which falls on the 10th of Tevet. Not only ...