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 the eve of the 10th of Tevet, the General Day of Kaddish for those who perished in the Holocaust whose date of death is not known, thoughts about saying kaddish for loved ones who are no longer ...

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, once told Michael Goldfarb of people going to their deaths at Auschwitz asking who will say Kaddish for me? Kadish is the Jewish prayer for ...

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 ...

Chabad Shliach Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler sounded the shofar and Israel's former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recited Kaddish at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration ...

“What’s In A Name – A Response to Barry Chiswick,” Contemporary Jewry 29 (2009), 85-90. “Saying Kaddish Too Soon? [Response to Norman Lamm]” Forward, June 5, 2009. [Introduction to] Manischewitz: The ...

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 ...