The heartbreaking loneliness of mourning during a pandemic
BY JORDANA HORN –This story originally appeared on Kveller. On Friday morning, my father-in-law died. He was a lucky man in general: He lived to 92, he got…
Religion
An essay about Vehi She’amda
(AJNews) – Rabbi Chaim Greenwald, Director of Judaic Studies at Halpern Akiva Academy, assigned his Grade 7 students to write an essay discussing the Passover…
It could be easy to lose sense of time during the coronavirus pandemic. Jewish tradition has an antidote for that.
by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick (JTA) — Among the most enduring comforts of Jewish life are its endless patterns and repetitions — the seven-day rhythm of…
Conservative movement leaders say virtual minyans are permissible during ‘crisis situation’
by Ben Harris (JTA) — The leaders of the Conservative movement’s Jewish law committee issued a crisis declaration allowing the recitation of the Mourner’s Kaddish…
From the Sources: Purim – Sequel to Sinai
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – In one of the Talmud’s more theologically troubling passages, an obscure sage named Rav Avdimi bar Ḥama expounded that when…