Her death presents a question for Ivanka: How should she, as a convert who is now an Orthodox Jew, mourn her non-Jewish mother? Will she — and, Jewishly, is she allowed to — sit shiva?

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

“Shiva Baby,” streaming on platforms including Amazon Prime Video and iTunes starting April 2, is a “Jewish movie” both on its surface and in its roots.