Judaism has many laws for grievers, including the length of the formal mourning period known as shiva. The usual proscribed length is seven days. For someone adhering to Jewish law, the only way ...

The Jewish custom of shiva — the name of which comes from the Hebrew word “sheva,” meaning “seven” — refers to the seven-day period of mourning in response to the loss of a parent ...

Since shiva starts right after the burial of the ... Call a favorite local restaurant or Jewish deli to cater. Order fruit platters or pre-made food baskets. Coordinate a meal schedule and have ...

The Shiva Minyan restores a lost vision of how ... of community more pervasive than in the world of traditional Judaism. The mourner, then, reels from the universal and human loss of context ...

(RNS) — That must be a trick question, you say. Oct. 7 was, well, on Oct. 7. True enough. But what is the appropriate date for its commemoration? That was the question many of us were hearing ...

(JTA) — In the 2020 comedy “Shiva Baby,” a 20-something young woman shows up at a house of Jewish mourners and gently offers her condolences. When she finds her mother in the kitchen ...

While begrudgingly accompanying her parents to a shiva, the Jewish mourning ritual, a college student encounters not only her ex-girlfriend, but also her sugar daddy. Filmmaker Emma Seligman ran ...