A Jewish family traditionally sits shiva for the death of loved ones after their funeral. But what happens when a loved one goes missing for five years? What if they’re assumed to be dead, but not ...

The parents and siblings of Rabbi Eli Schlanger HYD, the Shliach murdered in the terror attack in Bondi, Sydney, Australia on ...

It was a sad Sunday morning at my childhood synagogue. Two members of our community had passed away from cancer, and I remember the feelings I had watching their children recite the mourners’ kaddish.

After Shaul Moshi died last week in Los Angeles at the age of 94, over 100 people gathered at his home for the traditional shiva minyan. It was Wednesday night — before the synagogues and schools had ...

On Sunday, my dad did one of the toughest things he'll ever have to do—he gave a eulogy for his mother. But he also did something equally tough, if not tougher. He told his closest friends and family ...

Sarah Davis survived the Holocaust. Decades later, when she was 95, she succumbed to COVID-19. Six of us stood around her grave at measured distances from one another; her children and grandson spoke ...

A shiva, the ritual gathering that follows a Jewish funeral, is potentially as good a cinematic device for uniting disparate — and dysfunctional — friends and family as the wedding, birthday, ...

This is not the time to be alone. A little girl grieves the loss of her mother, but she can't grieve alone. When her friends and family arrive at her house to sit shiva, laden with cakes and stories, ...

Debi Cantor-Sternin and her two sisters grew up in Queens, New York. Their parents, Irwin and Gloria, were active in their local synagogue, and the family celebrated all the Jewish holidays. “That was ...

(JTA) After Shaul Moshi died in Los Angeles at the age of 94, over 100 people gathered at his home for the traditional shiva minyan. It was Wednesday night — before the synagogues and schools had ...