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Making Judaism Accessible to Those Affected By Dementia

When my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2002, we found it challenging to integrate Jewish practice into her life. But it doesn’t have to be that way—and these organizations are making a difference.

By Alexandra Pucciarelli · December 21, 2017
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Death of a Yiddish Giant

Remembering I.L. Peretz, who died 100 years ago this week

By Eddy Portnoy · April 2, 2015
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Rediscovering the First Woman Rabbi

Ordained in 1935, Regina Jonas died at Auschwitz. Now, she’s being honored.

By Laura Geller · October 15, 2014
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A Congregation Can Be Like a Family—for Better, and for Worse

I pray with angry, damaged, and difficult men. I stay because they’re like my brothers. And because sometimes they change.

By Simon Yisrael Feuerman · March 6, 2014
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Happy Birthday to Me, Happy Birthday to Me. Remind Me: How Old Am I Now?

We mark kids’ birthdays and the yahrzeit dates of older relatives we’ve lost. But for parents, our own special occasions get overlooked.

By Marjorie Ingall · January 29, 2014
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Visiting My Grandmother’s Yahrzeit Plaque

I never got to meet my grandmother, but the place I feel closest to her has always been her yahrzeit plaque in our synagogue

By Aaron R. Katz · September 13, 2013
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The Unofficial Mourner

I thought Jewish law left no role for me to grieve when my fiancé’s brother died. Now, I finally can.

By Anya Manning · May 25, 2012
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Mourning My Mother, Finally

For years, I tried to forget my mother’s suicide. Then a yahrzeit notice made me face the past.

By C. A. Blomquist · May 8, 2012
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Houdini’s Yahrzeit

Honoring the magician with a wand and a prayer

By Marc Tracy · November 5, 2010
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