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 ...

Some 1,200 families will soon finish saying the Mourner’s Kaddish for their loved ones who were murdered on Simchat Torah, October 7. The custom is to recite the Kaddish prayer three times daily for ...

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 ...

(RNS) — It has been five years since my father died at the almost biblical age of 98, and I still cannot find his grave. There is a reason for that. He and my late stepmother chose to be buried in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leonard Bernstein’s third and final symphony, known as the “Kaddish,” was first performed in Israel in 1963 and had its U.S. premiere in Boston in 1964. As conductor and Bernstein protégée Marin Alsop ...

“A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff” isn’t strictly a documentary, a musical, or a fictional story. Instead, the film, which stars and was created by Portland-based writer and musician Alicia Jo Rabins, is a ...