Death

Rachel Bloom’s one-woman musical comedy to open off-Broadway this fall

The Jewish comedian, actress and writer will perform “Death, Let Me Do My Show,” at Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village in September.

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Jewish girl praying for missing parent moves Surfside mayor: ‘I am going to find her’

“She didn’t know what to do, what to say, who to talk to,” Charles Burkett said, looking visibly moved.

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Saying Kaddish helped me mourn my father. During the pandemic, it helped me build a community.

While our online kaddish minyan is a place where we talk openly about death, it is also a place of comfort, and not only for the mourners.

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I’m a rabbi who learned the hard way that policing how Jews mourn never ends well

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The heartbreaking loneliness of mourning during a pandemic

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Grieving my husband prepared me for this pandemic

United States

Remains believed to be from actor Charles Levin of ‘Seinfeld’ fame found in Oregon

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Culture

Saying goodbye to our first (fur) baby

Mariusz Robert Opałko, holding a Torah scroll, and Michael Freund at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel on June 9, 2013. (Courtesy of Shavei Israel)

Global

When elders reveal they are Jewish on their deathbeds, their children often return to Judaism

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What preparing a Jewish body for burial is really like

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