This essay was adapted from the final chapter of the author’s new book, For Such a Time as This: on Being Jewish Today. In 25 years as a rabbi, no one I have counseled through the Jewish stages of ...
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An Arizona cemetery now requires mourners to leave before burial. A rabbi plans to sue.
At Jewish funerals, the final act is often the simplest: the casket is lowered into the earth, mourners take turns with a ...
Each summer, for three weeks, many Jews around the world engage in an ancient and communal act of mourning — culminating in a full fast on the 9th of Av, or Tisha b’Av. This day marks the destruction ...
(RNS) — As a Jew reading about Pope Francis’ funeral wishes, the precedent set by Rabban Gamliel immediately came to mind. These two religious leaders, centuries apart, broke with traditions around ...
In 2001, Yom Kippur fell on Sept. 26, two weeks after the terror attacks that brought down the World Trade Center. By then, the major denominations had already ...
Mourning is unfashionable. A popular platitude is that funerals are meant to be a “celebration of life.” This seemingly innocuous phrase is actually a subtle form of peer pressure, demanding the ...
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