Shiva
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Culture How sitting shiva helped me decide to convert to Judaism
Where sitting shiva felt nurturing and clarifying, other grieving rituals had felt incomplete
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News ‘One of those moments in Jewish history’: 10 days as a wartime volunteer in Israel
I picked oranges, packed meals and sat shiva — and saw firsthand the importance of solidarity with Israelis in a moment of crisi
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News When Judaism didn’t offer rituals for a stillbirth, a grieving couple created their own
Rabbi Ilan Glazer and his wife Sherri Glazer also wrote Hebrew songs inspired by their family’s loss
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News Meet the Jewish funeral cats of Sacramento
Jewish mourning rituals offer a deeply rooted structure to guide a grieving family. And sometimes there's a cat, too
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Culture ‘The creation of a space’: How sitting shiva mirrors a therapeutic relationship
What lies behind the healing power of shiva?
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Opinion How Jewish mourning rituals can help us move from Oct. 7 to a peaceful future
We do not get over the pain, but we move forward while holding it
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News ‘He lived such a full life’: In a city on a hilltop, a family mourns its oldest son
Mitzpe Yericho, a settlement outside of Jerusalem, grieves a 19-year-old who loved music and Torah
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Opinion How do we forge ahead after calamity? The Jewish way of mourning offers a roadmap.
Tradition understands the gradual, crooked path of recovering from tragedy, writes the cofounder of an Orthodox women’s yeshiva
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