Mourning

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.

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.

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.

Israel

Jerusalem chief rabbi visits mourning tent of killed autistic Palestinian man

Ideas

What it’s like to officiate a funeral in the time of social distancing

Ideas

Grieving my husband prepared me for this pandemic

Culture

‘Modern Loss’ authors want to change the way we talk about mourning

First Person

Serving up shalom at a post-election Thanksgiving

First Person

In Jerusalem, a chance encounter with my deceased mother

Global

British chief rabbi: Comfort, support women who want to say Mourner’s Kaddish

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