NEW YORK (JTA) — In his most recent novel, “kaddish.com,” Nathan Englander imagines a website used by a character — encumbered by Jewish guilt — to hire someone to say the traditional mourner’s prayer ...

I shed many tears during my year of saying Kaddish. Most of them had nothing to do with the loss of my father. It was in the music that I missed him most, during the Friday night service, when the ...

The Orthodox tradition of chiuv (obligation) of a son-in-mourning to lead the tri-daily services while saying Kaddish still puzzles me. A number of months ago, Herb Keinon wrote a touching Magazine ...

The original practice in Ashkenazi communities was that each mourners’ Kaddish in the prayer service is recited by one person only. Rabbi Akiva Eger (1761-1837) was a great Talmudic mind, famous for ...

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After services the other day, I asked a fellow mourner how much longer he had to say Kaddish. “Wednesday,” he replied, with a smile a mile wide. He then called out to another mourner, asking him the ...

With their garments slit, their locks tousled, an orthodox Jewish family mourns its dead by sitting shivah—in stocking feet, on rough boxes instead of chairs—during the first seven days. For eleven ...