Since Kaddish does not mention God’s name, saying the prayer at home privately, though not ideal, would not constitute taking God’s name in vain. In our situation, Rabbi Cherlow correctly says ...

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, once told Michael Goldfarb of people going to their deaths at Auschwitz asking who will say Kaddish for me? Kadish is the Jewish prayer for ...

Tzur, the nine-year-old son of Cpt. (Res.) Amit Levi who fell in battle in Gaza, recited the Kaddish prayer over his father's grave.

“Find my son; teach him how to say kaddish for me; and I will be saved from this painful fate.” The man would have gone on to olam ha-ba, or the Garden of Eden. All because of that one prayer ...

A new book about Humanistic Judaism urges readers to look both inward and outward – personally and societally.

During the avelut year they will not attend parties and will say a blessing called the Kaddish every day. Yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. The night before, many Jews light a candle in ...

In this parasha we find the source of the four- or five- cups of wine we are directed to drink at the Pesach Seder. There are ...

(JTA) — The day after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the widely cherished Supreme Court justice, died at 87, her fans gathered for impromptu memorial services at courthouses around the country. Now, Jews ...

Chabad Shliach Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler sounded the shofar and Israel's former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recited Kaddish at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration ...

Leonard Bernstein's ‘Kaddish' Symphony, the Hebrew prayer for times of bereavement, sparks a heated exploration of spirit and fate, a testament made all the more poignant with updated words ...