Before he was murdered in captivity, Ori Danino helped fellow hostages, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, in acts of heroism ...

They are the words that Jews will chant as they gather in fasting and mourning on the first Tisha B’Av (August 12-13) since ...

asks for passengers on the flight to create a quorum so he can say the Kaddish Jewish mourning prayer for his recently deceased wife Liora. The Mincha minyan, or quorum of 10 Jewish men — led by ...

Kyra Shishko thought she knew everything about her grandfather, but the CV offered a closer look at the early part of his ...

In Jewish tradition, this recognition of personal grief is supported by rituals that provide comfort and connection at every ...

According to Jewish law, mourning begins only after burial. Judaism allows full expression of pain through mourning customs but ultimately demands a gradual return to life. In the current case ...

There’s a long-running debate among observant Jews about whether it is appropriate, in Jewish law, to establish days of mourning and fasting to commemorate individual calamities that have ...

“My non-Jewish friends say you guys do death and mourning right — you got it down,” he said. The Rabbi acknowledged that mourning goes beyond death, emphasizing how people can also grieve ...