(RNS) — After Amanda Siegel’s mother died in March, she decided she wanted to keep the tradition of saying the kaddish, the Jewish mourner’s prayer, every day for 11 months. The kaddish, as with most ...
As the Jewish High Holidays begin and the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel nears, some police departments in the Boston area say they are monitoring Jewish communities and ...
On Yom Kippur, Jews across the world gather to recite the same confessions. That shared observance does not require Jews to agree about how Judaism should be practiced.