Ideas The world is in pain this Passover. These rabbis have wisdom to help us embrace it. I asked several rabbis to reflect on a part of the Seder that feels different this year, after a full year of plague. In their own ways, all wrote about pain. By Laura E. Adkins March 23, 2021 5:52 pm
Ideas Saying Kaddish helped me mourn my father. During the pandemic, it helped me build a community. While our online kaddish minyan is a place where we talk openly about death, it is also a place of comfort, and not only for the mourners. November 1, 2020 8:00 am
Ideas Zoom shiva shouldn’t end once the pandemic does The ability to sit with our mourners when they most need our support should not be limited by physical proximity. June 4, 2020 9:46 am
Jerusalem chief rabbi visits mourning tent of killed autistic Palestinian man By Marcy Oster June 3, 2020 1:34 pm
Ideas What it’s like to officiate a funeral in the time of social distancing By Rabbi Jonah Geffen April 21, 2020 4:38 pm
‘Modern Loss’ authors want to change the way we talk about mourning By Lori Silberman Brauner February 1, 2018 10:09 am
First Person Serving up shalom at a post-election Thanksgiving By Edmon J. Rodman November 15, 2016 4:48 pm
First Person In Jerusalem, a chance encounter with my deceased mother By Jennifer Richler October 14, 2016 12:49 pm
British chief rabbi: Comfort, support women who want to say Mourner’s Kaddish January 21, 2016 7:13 am