Some 1,200 families will soon finish saying the Mourner’s Kaddish for their loved ones who were murdered on Simchat Torah, October 7. The custom is to recite the Kaddish prayer three times daily for ...

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 ...

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One part of the Kaddish prayer, which is often said as part of Jewish funeral services, is a request for peace. The images that make up the "Kaddish Series" by Chicago artist Mauricio Lasansky show ...

Jews can be found all over the world, on every continent, in the most obscure places. And this is serendipitous because wherever there are Jews, there are Jews who need a minyan to say Kaddish.