The parameters of the shiva mourning ritual seem daunting. Judaism guides us to sit in our homes for seven days. Of course, we have exceptions like attending synagogue on Shabbat or traveling from ...

We must sit shiva together. We must grieve as a people. Yesterday, we heard the news. Today, we are broken. Tomorrow, we bury not just two babies, but a fragile ember of hope for our future.

In Judaism, when someone dies, the family traditionally partakes in a seven-day period of mourning called shiva. It begins promptly after the burial, and while not all mourners sit for the entire ...

A “Simpsons” episode features more than enough Jewish characters to make a minyan. The death ended a nearly year-long macabre mystery, when executive producer Al Jean announced in October 2013 ...

Here we explore the answers to key questions, such as whether autopsies are permitted under Jewish law, when to sit the shiva mourning period and how to calculate a yahrzeit if the date of death ...

The honorable Bruce Blakeman, County Executive, and Supervisor Joseph Saladino, paid a Shiva condolence visit at the home of ...

"This Maharaja Chitraketu was passing by, and he thought it was very funny that Shiva himself was sitting there having a class on spiritual life and detachment, with his wife sitting on his lap ...