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

Nearly forty days after losing my dad to cancer, winning and losing seem less important than learning how to endure

How could I honor my father’s memory without denying how I felt about him? A ‘Yizkor’ prayer helped me find a way.

What a ‘death midwife’ has learned from the dead and dying

With his death, he ruined love. That’s the one thing I let myself be angry with him for.

A year ago, I skipped Thanksgiving. I didn’t realize I’d never see my father again.