While saying Kaddish for both my parents, I spent nearly two years in various Zoom services—and found them, in some ways, better than the original

Stories of mourning by Isaac Bashevis Singer make perfect reading in this darkly anxious season

A graveside ritual helped me work through my grief over my father’s death

How I mourned my dad a decade after blowing off my biggest obligation to him

As my father’s health deteriorated, I hoarded containers of his garlicky specialty in my refrigerator—hoping it might keep him, and our connection, alive

As an atheist, I needed to find my own way to observe Jewish rituals when my father died

As Yom Kippur approaches, finding comfort among the afflicted

Managing your relationships while mourning

After my father died, my synagogue struggled to fulfill my spiritual needs—and its own mission

The first Jewish sacred space to commemorate miscarriages, abortions, and stillbirths

My mother and I had different ideas about our Jewish identity. After she died, I had one more compromise to make.

I wanted to be comforted by friends, and to hear stories about my dad. The COVID pandemic made that impossible.

Attending a virtual shiva, I saw how Jewish traditions still hold up under the most extraordinary circumstances

When my shul closed during the pandemic, I lost the place where I usually commemorate my father’s death and say Kaddish for him

After giving birth to a stillborn baby, finding comfort in Jewish ritual and scripture