Like many Jews who have suffered the loss of a parent in the last year, Sandi DuBowski says Kaddish daily. Unlike many traditional Jews, he usually doesn’t do it in a synagogue. Instead, DuBowski, a ...

The same prayer, which is part Hebrew and part Aramaic, is to be recited Friday — the first Shabbat since the massacre. On Twitter, historian Aaron Astor wrote: “The Jewish Mourner’s Kaddish is one of ...

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“Yitgadal v’yitkadash…” the words of the Kaddish have echoed through synagogues for centuries, traditionally intoned by a Jewish man in mourning during a prayer service, with nine other men — at ...

In many a shiva house, books of consolation and Jewish ritual are as ubiquitous as archival photos and cellophane-wrapped platters of food. You’re likely to find Leon Wieseltier’s “Kaddish,” Rabbi ...

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

Sholem Aleichim has a wonderful story about Kaddish related in his “Railroad Stories.” (Tales that examine human nature and modernity as seen by men and women riding the trains from town to town.) A ...

Recently, as my mother’s yahrzeit – anniversary of her death – came around I wondered: Was I going to New York to pray at her gravesite and recite the kaddish, or was I going to Florida to pray with ...

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