Prayers for Mourners

Overcoming Obstacles to Recite Mourner’s Kaddish with Dignity

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

I have always fancied myself as a feminist. When I was in primary school, I remember arguing with one of ...

As I wrote in The Torch last fall, I started attending the early morning minyan at my synagogue with the ...

There were a couple of times when I said Kaddish in some unconventional or “unorthodox” circumstances, but they were quite ...

The recitation of Kaddish benefits both the soul of the departed loved one, as well as the mourner.

I recently attended my friend’s father’s memorial. It was held at the Faculty House of Columbia University in a perfectly ...

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available.I want to talk a little more about my family of ...

The eldest son was chosen by his father to recite the Kaddish in his memory.Standing at the gravesite where his ...

Yizkor is part of an ongoing conversation with the dead, but what we don't realize is that we constantly converse with the dead in daily life.

A story illustrates the power of reciting Kaddish for a parent.

The essence of Kaddish may be less in the meaning of the words than in the experience of reciting it with other Jews.

After burial Jewish law requires the mourner to turn from despair in the face of death to the affirmation of life.