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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...
Josh Fine
Apr 22, 2025, 1:08 PM
Our new national mourner’s kaddish
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...
Mark E. Paull
Apr 22, 2025, 12:40 PM
Not All Loss Comes with Sirens
I don’t know if this belongs here. I don’t even know if I should be submitting this. Not now. Not in this moment. Not when families are erased before they can run. Not when soldiers are burying friends faster than they can mourn...
Scott Kahn
Mar 3, 2025, 1:54 PM
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Sailing towards the horizon
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
Naomi L. Baum
Jan 9, 2025, 11:35 PM
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A tale of two kaddishes
On this 10th of Tevet, designated a day of 'general mourning,' I focus instead on my mother, my son, and how different losing each of them has been
Miriam Malka Craimer
Oct 27, 2024, 10:47 AM
What NOT to say to a woman saying Kaddish
I recently completed the 11-month period of Kaddish following the passing of my beloved Abba, Rabbi Prof. Avraham Holtz. For nearly a year, three times a day, I joined a minyan (traditional Modern Orthodox prayer quorum) for services. And...
Stephen Saperstein Frug
Oct 15, 2024, 11:52 AM
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This Jewish atheist has been praising God’s name
I've said the Mourner's Kaddish, a prayer of elaborate affirmation of divine will, for nearly a year of my life – twice. Here's why
Daniel Stein Kokin
Oct 7, 2024, 12:14 AM
A Mourner’s Kaddish for the Israeli South (Kaddish Yatom la-Darom)
For the “Eileh Ezkerah” section of the Mahzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur that he published in 1972, Rabbi Jules Harlow composed a Kaddish Yatom or Mourner’s Kaddish in which he interspersed the names of Nazi concentration camps and...
Jaroslava Halper
Sep 25, 2024, 11:13 PM
Kaddish for my mother
Jaroslava Halper יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵיהּ רַבָּא A couple of days ago, on Elul 18, I observed yahrzeit for my mom who died 9 years ago. We went to our Chabad, my husband recited Kaddish, and I shared a few memories and...
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