For Orthodox men, the commitment to recite Kaddish with a minyan multiple times a day for 11 months can be logistically challenging. For Birnbach, it was herculean. My first thought when I read the ...

Kaddish for October 7th is the Kaddish we will never say. It is the Kaddish of mothers who will no longer see their children. It is a Kaddish for parents who do not know if their children are dead or ...

IN ONE OF the best-known stories in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, the collection of short stories that shot Nathan Englander into the literary stratosphere seven years ago, a middle-aged WASP ...

The book describes the supreme efforts of mourners to find a minyan, a prayer quorum of 10 men, in many countries and in the most unlikely places for the recitation of the Mourner’s Kaddish Who’s ...

“Yitgadal v’yitkadash…” the words of the Kaddish have echoed through synagogues for centuries, traditionally intoned by a Jewish man in mourning during a prayer service, with nine other men — at ...

Sholem Aleichim has a wonderful story about Kaddish related in his “Railroad Stories.” (Tales that examine human nature and modernity as seen by men and women riding the trains from town to town.) A ...

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 ...

In late August, The Sisterhood launched a series examining the role of women in Jewish mourning traditions. Grieving for a loved one is fiercely personal; doing so as a woman, guided by Jewish laws ...

In a brief interview given shortly after winning the Nobel in 2002, the Hungarian Imre Kertész, asked to comment on his claim that it was easier for him to write in a dictatorship than a democracy, ...

On the Tenth of Tevet, the Kaddish prayer is said for victims of the Holocaust whose date of death is unknown. My wife's mother, may she have a long and healthy life, asked me to recite the prayer for ...

Performed from Highland Park’s Ravinia Festival, Great Performances presents legendary composer Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish symphony featuring the talent of Uniting Voices (formerly Chicago Children’s ...