At a recent film screening on end-of-life care centering a Jewish family’s experience—a topic I was drawn to because of my ...

Here we explore the answers to key questions, such as whether autopsies are permitted under Jewish law, when to sit the shiva mourning period and how to calculate a yahrzeit if the date of death ...

It is not sacrilegious to believe in actions and outcomes, in deeds and consequences. That is nature, which is central to the Almighty’s vast eternal plan for the universe. Personally, I don’t ...

A Haredi Jew, dressed in a black hat and coat with long payot, dangles a diamond necklace in front of his strikingly bulbous ...

While Jewish blood soaked the floors of homes and ... We already know that for 36 of them, we will be sitting shiva. There is no moving on. There is only this new life Hamas has declared for ...

A chance meeting over 20 years ago by Ilana Hoffer Skoff led to the founding of an organization that has impacted the lives ...

But while the nation of Israel is caught in a desperate torrent of emotions, our government seems strangely, indeed ...

Jews gathered in Haifa for the Voice of the People’s Council, an initiative and vision of Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog.

When a person passes away, we tear our clothing. It’s a sign of mourning, of the unbearable loss. And when we are buried, we are dressed in tachrichim, simple linen shrouds. Clothing marks every sta ...

Jewish funerals typically occur within 24 to ... honor someone who has passed on,” Rabbi Nevarez said. After burial, Shiva is observed for seven days, focusing on comforting the bereaved through ...

Jacob, the father of Joseph, “dreamed, and lo – a ladder was set on the ground, with its top reaching to heaven, and lo – ...