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Today in Jewish History: June 30, 1922

The famous science fiction franchise explores distant galaxies with religious verve.

Editors of siddurim (prayer books) have included a variety of bonus materials.

Hebrew numerology, and the secrets of the Torah.

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

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.

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.