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Mordechai Soskil

Jun 24, 2026, 8:49 PM

Kaddish Brothers

This Friday will conclude 11 months since my father’s death, and thus the end of my period of time to say the Mourner’s Kaddish. When a Jew is sitting Shiva, they stay at home and the minyan comes to...

Jonathan Guttentag

May 10, 2026, 7:32 PM

Until This Day: My Mother’s Matzevah

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Until This Day: Reflections at My Mother’s Matzevah Last week, our family gathered at Agecroft Beis Hachayim in Manchester to set the matzevah for my mother, Mrs Eva — Chava bas Reb Shlomo Osher — Guttentag, a”h. In Jewish tradition, a...

Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer

Apr 13, 2026, 3:19 AM

Pinchas’s Song: Written by Tzedeck Zeltzer

Design: Tzedeck Zeltzer
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B"H 4/12/2026 25 Nisan 5786 In loving memory of our friend and neighbor ...

Stephen Daniel Arnoff

Mar 26, 2026, 10:00 AM

Kaddish: When Culture Becomes a Vessel for Spiritual Life

First, each of us – students and staff – shared a reflection on our fathers. To paraphrase one of my favorite marginal prophets, there were ghosts in our eyes as we spoke of the ones who went away, who...

Dec 4, 2025, 2:40 PM

The double embrace of Kaddish

The author, with his sister, father, and mother z"l. (courtesy)

The mourner's prayer grabbed me from Day 1, giving much-needed focus to my time and thoughts - and the community that made it possible carried me through

Aug 17, 2025, 6:17 PM

Searching for Valesca: Once More to Memory Lane

In 2023 and 2024, my partner Naomi and I spent hours searching for the grave of her grandmother, German-born Valesca Schulman Leiseroff. She died in 1972 and in 1974 her son Eric had her name added to a gravestone...

Michael Doppelt

May 28, 2025, 5:36 AM

Mourning Lights: The Big Picture

Nobody is special for having lost a parent. It is actually quite the opposite as it makes us, at some point, a part of just about everyone. We do all, however, encounter and respond to the experience differently, opting...

Shlomo Loshinsky

Apr 27, 2025, 12:39 PM

You can see it on my face

It’s been 31 days since my father, Moshe Loshinsky, passed away. Jewish tradition provides us with “stages” in our mourning process. There was the day I was an “onen,” between his death and the burial when I wasn’t supposed...

Apr 22, 2025, 1:08 PM

Our new national mourner’s kaddish

Stickers in memory of the fallen at a train station in Herzliya. Photo by the author.

My father of blessed memory died on December 3, 2024. Since then, I’ve been saying the mourner’s kaddish. I was not a stranger to Jewish prayer before my father’s passing, but I also wasn’t a consistent attendee of daily...

Mar 3, 2025, 1:54 PM

Sailing towards the horizon

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Saying kaddish for 11 months ends without ceremony, as if I suddenly stopped waving to departing guests. It breaks my heart, but at least that feels right

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