Shiva
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Culture Preparing Jewish bodies for burial, an artist finds inspiration
'I could have painted landscapes,' says Karen Benioff Friedman. Instead, she's portraying the rituals around death.
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News Sitting shiva for the missing: How can Jews mourn someone not confirmed to be dead?
Families whose loved ones have gone missing face an agonizing choice: Observe Jewish mourning rituals despite not knowing their fate, or hold on to distant hope
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Culture 4 must-see documentaries to help you understand the process of shiva
Jewish mourning rituals are complex and deeply personal. These films can help you begin to understand them
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FIRST PERSON On sitting shiva and watching ‘Back to the Future’
After my mom died, all I wanted was to hop in a time machine
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First Person My boyfriend died in May. It showed me how meaningful Jewish mourning rituals can be — and how flawed
Jewish mourning is all about community. That made the process more extraordinary, and more painful
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Culture Six things to read to really understand shiva
Wondering how to move forward after experiencing a loss? These books and stories can help
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Culture Sitting shiva and los nueve días: the parallels between Jewish and Latino Catholic mourning
Jews are far from the only group to practice consecutive days of prayer and mourning following a death
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Opinion My fellow white Jews: This is not our shiva
While Black Jews began to mourn, Jewish media fixated on the fact that the gunman’s screed was explicitly antisemitic.
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Yiddish זאַמלבוך באַשרײַבט די ייִדישע קולטור אין פֿאַר־מלחמהדיקן פּוילן, פֿונעם 'דאָיִקייט'־קוקווינקלNew book describes Jewish culture in prewar Poland, from a ‘Doikayt’ perspective
אינטערעסאַנט איז וואָס די קראָקעװער ייִדן האָבן זיך געפֿילט מער פּױליש, אײדער ייִדן אין אַנדערע שטעט, װי װילנע
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Art Paintings, Judaica and history collide at Tobi Kahn’s Eldridge Street exhibition
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Yiddish ווי אַזוי האָט אויסגעזען דאָס לעבן אין דעטראָיטס אַמאָליקן ייִדישן קוואַרטאַל?What was life like in Detroit’s old Jewish quarter?
אַ נײַע אויסשטעלונג פֿון „הייסטינגס סטריט“ נעמט אַרײַן טשיקאַווע חפֿצים, ווי באַנקעס פֿונעם עפֿנטלעכן שוויצבאָד