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 ...

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 ...

Does the traditional recitation of kaddish do honor to the non-believer? I don’t see why not, but there are those for whom this is a sticking point. Writer and poet Aurora Levins Morales was ...

“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 ...

Nearing the end of Kaddish for the Oct 7 victims and Agam Berger's 20's birthday in captivity in Gaza, Parashat Re’eh highlights our freedom of choice between the blessing and the curse. This week’s ...

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 ...

(RNS) — It has been five years since my father died at the almost biblical age of 98, and I still cannot find his grave. There is a reason for that. He and my late stepmother chose to be buried in a ...

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 ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Tova Mirvis KADDISH.COM By Nathan Englander There are reportedly no atheists in a foxhole, but do ...

No matter how familiar you are with death, it’s impossible to be prepared for the loss of your mother. Death is the subject I deal with daily as the executive director of the Hebrew Free Burial ...

“Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on / the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. / downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, / ...