Mourn

It is totally human to feel righteous indignation and even justified anger. And unless we were born as saints of ...

As a rabbi, one of the life-cycle processes I accompany people through is the funeral. When a person dies, burying ...

On extending Jewish mourning rituals to non-traditional mourners.

In Jewish tradition, sitting shiva is a trust fall.

Rarely have I been so deeply affected, so deeply wounded inside, so utterly shattered.

For those of you who wear rings, this probably sounds familiar: you fiddle with your ring, a thousand times a ...

My father died on Rosh Hashanah 5764. He died at home, in a clean white bed, surrounded by his wife ...

Israel is the most uplifting place in the world, and on my trip there last week I felt the usual ...

On Feb. 28, 2012, 5 Adar, my entire world changed. My first child was born. My center of gravity moved ...