We invited him to say Kaddish. He stood outside in a park talking into his phone, and said this was a “God bomb.” He had been looking for an outlet to honor his aunt who had raised him and ...

Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, a rosh yeshiva, or head of school, in Israel, has taken a different approach by questioning what would be so terrible about saying Kaddish at home without a minyan.

No matter. There I am this week, on my father’s precise yahrzeit, saying kaddish at my father’s grave. I finally found it by doing what I always do — seeing the gate through which I entered ...

On this 10th of Tevet, designated a day of 'general mourning,' I focus instead on my mother, my son, and how different losing ...

Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. On the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation Michael Goldfarb explores the ...

For eleven months after the death there is daily Kaddish, a prayer in the synagog, usually led by a son or daughter of the deceased. Some rabbis chant a routine, blanket Kaddish at the end of ...

During the avelut year they will not attend parties and will say a blessing called the Kaddish every day. Yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. The night before, many Jews light a candle in ...