kaddish

On extending Jewish mourning rituals to non-traditional mourners.

A recent line of inquiry has led me down a research rabbit hole — a tunnel falling straight into the ...

It’s Friday afternoon in a quiet Maryland suburb. Cars pull into driveways and kids get off school buses, ready to ...

Rarely have I been so deeply affected, so deeply wounded inside, so utterly shattered.

My father died on Rosh Hashanah 5764. He died at home, in a clean white bed, surrounded by his wife ...

I have always fancied myself as a feminist. When I was in primary school, I remember arguing with one of ...

As I wrote in The Torch last fall, I started attending the early morning minyan at my synagogue with the ...

There were a couple of times when I said Kaddish in some unconventional or “unorthodox” circumstances, but they were quite ...

The recitation of Kaddish benefits both the soul of the departed loved one, as well as the mourner.

I recently attended my friend’s father’s memorial. It was held at the Faculty House of Columbia University in a perfectly ...