Parashat Metzora: Healing From the Mysterious and Incomprehensible

This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Metzorah, is primarily concerned with a peculiar biblical affliction called tzaraat (tzah-RAH-at). Commonly mistranslated as ...

Rituals of Return

My return to sacred space.

Parashat Tazria: Birth, Death and the Sanctity of the Liminal

Parshat Tazria deals with two subjects that at first appear quite at odds: the rituals following the birth of a ...

Why Passover Is Important

Commemorating the foundational event in Jewish history makes Jews who they are.

18 Items to Make This Passover Different From All Others

From seder plates and Passover treats to jumping frogs and Haggadahs, step up your seder game this year.

Text of the Mourner’s Kaddish

The prayer traditionally recited for the dead, in Aramaic, transliteration and English translation.

How to Say the Mourner’s Kaddish

This prayer praises God's greatness and God's ability to bring peace to the world.

How To Say The Mourner’s Kaddish (Video)

Learn how to say the Mourner’s Kaddish. For more on the Kaddish, click here and here. Sign up for a ...

Parashat Pekudei: Opening Ourselves Up

How many of us who are grieving put up screens in our lives in order to get through the day?