But food isn’t only used for celebratory occasions — it’s also consumed in times of mourning, like the shiva. In Judaism, when someone dies, the family traditionally partakes in a seven ...

The parameters of the shiva mourning ritual seem daunting. Judaism guides us to sit in our homes for seven days. Of course, we have exceptions like attending synagogue on Shabbat or traveling from ...

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 ...

And I’ve learned that it’s not just something we should use as a temporary measure: The Zoom shiva call should be an important and sustaining part of the post-pandemic Jewish future rather ...

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 ...