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 ...

(JTA) — The Jewish Theological Seminary community is in mourning after three revered scholars long associated with the Conservative movement flagship died within days of each other. Rabbi Israel ...

Jewish tradition recognizes that there is no ... In a similar vein, there are limitations on mourning. When the period of shiva is over, the custom is that the mourner is accompanied outside ...

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

Wearing a kippah, Trump reportedly took part in numerous traditional Jewish mourning practices and placed a note and a small ...

Board of Governors meeting, the Jewish Agency will also focus on strengthening security for Jewish communities worldwide amid ...

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 ...

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 ...

In that collective mourning, we find strength ... not just within our families or our synagogues, but across the Jewish world. We cannot afford to be fractured. We cannot allow our divisions ...

“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 ...