Evergreen

The challenges in creating a sensitive, idiomatic, and accurate translation of a classical Jewish text.

A prayer of remembrance.

Yizkor is part of an ongoing conversation with the dead, but what we don't realize is that we constantly converse with the dead in daily life.

A story illustrates the power of reciting Kaddish for a parent.

A novel by Ben Katchor.

The essence of Kaddish may be less in the meaning of the words than in the experience of reciting it with other Jews.

After burial Jewish law requires the mourner to turn from despair in the face of death to the affirmation of life.

Celebrating our heritage and history.

Prompt burial of the deceased helps to preserve the dignity of the human being, who is made in the image of God, even in death.