The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.

The court ruled that the woman was not competent to make decisions regarding her body or inheritance, invalidating the will ...

A rabbi who has performed hundreds of funeral writes that the answer speaks not only to how we honor the dead, but to what we ...

On February 3, 2025, the United States Chaplain Corps (USCC) hosted a pivotal community roundtable in Brooklyn, where leaders ...

(JTA) — Israel was awash in orange on Wednesday as the Bibas family held a private funeral for Shiri, Ariel and Kfir, the mother and young sons murdered in captivity in Gaza. Israelis wearing orange ...

Siliki also highlights a burial ... to Muslim customs. “In our religion, burials in water are strictly forbidden. In the past, at the Haskoy Cemetery, one of Istanbul’s first Jewish cemeteries ...

According to Jewish law, mourning begins only after burial. Judaism allows full expression of pain through mourning customs but ultimately demands a gradual return to life. In the current case ...

Jewish burial is a mitzvah ... who "sit shiva," a process that involves several customs. This, however, raises questions of how the process of shiva works if the date of death is unknown or ...

An anti-Israel protest erupted into violence and mayhem as a swarm of demonstrators flooded a primarily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. One person was arrested after ...

Wilson Chavis, 50, was found guilty of murder, use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence and reckless endangerment Prince George's County Police Department A Maryland funeral ...

The funeral was blocked by right-wing Hindu vigilantes ... and death rituals must follow traditional customs. It said that "any person who has forsworn the tradition of the community or ...

Simple rites marked the funeral today of Henrietta ... She organized classes where Russian Jewish immigrants were taught the language, customs and the ideals of America. In 1909 Miss Szold went ...