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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...

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...

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...

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

Jan 9, 2025, 11:35 PM

A tale of two kaddishes

Yizkor Light photographed by Naomi Baum

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

This Jewish atheist has been praising God’s name

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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

Painting of Alt Neu Schul in Prague by my mother, photo by author

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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