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The double embrace of Kaddish

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

You don’t need Zoom or Skype to say Kaddish without a minyan. Here’s a healthier option for the community.

Some rabbis are encouraging internet-based solutions to hold us over, but a campus rabbi writes that those solutions could come with a significant cost. WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) — Like so many others, I ...
Jewish Journal

Reconsidering Kaddish: Four new approaches to an old ritual

“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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

This day of communal Kaddish, enacted after the Holocaust, is just right for this moment

The Tenth of Tevet is not just a fast day mourning the destruction of the temple but a day to mourn those for whom the date of death is unknown. (JTA) — Today is an unusual day on the Jewish calendar, ...
The Forward

What I learned saying kaddish at a Ramadan break-fast

This is our editor-in-chief’s weekly newsletter. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox on Friday afternoons. I said kaddish for my father last night in a room full of Muslims. Yes, I am aware ...
The Cheat Sheet

‘The Patient’: Fans Have a Disturbing Theory About Sam’s Interest in the Kaddish

In The Patient, Alan tries to get Sam to have some empathy for Elias’ family. He tells him about the Kaddish, a prayer that Jewish people say after someone dies. Sam asks if he should say it, and Alan ...
Jewish Press

The 10th of Tevet & The Forgotten Kaddish

The 10th of the month of Tevet has been a day of fasting for Jews for more than 2,500 years. The mention of the tragedy of this day goes farther back than any other Jewish fast, with the exception of ...
The Nation

Neither Comic nor Profound: The Vagaries of ‘kaddish.com’

Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel in Chicago, 2006. (Photo by AP / M. Spencer Green Since the release of his first story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, in 1999, Nathan Englander has been ...
The New York Times

‘Like a JDate for the Dead’

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Tova Mirvis KADDISH.COM By Nathan Englander There are reportedly no atheists in a foxhole, but do ...