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Renee Albersheim was murdered during the Holocaust. A Jewish couple in Florida has said the Mourner's Kaddish for her daily for years. (Courtesy Susan Bell via JTA)
April 14, 2026, 6:12 pm
With no one to say Kaddish for many children killed in the Holocaust, a US synagogue steps up
Dozens of families at Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach have ‘adopted’ child victims to memorialize as their own, in a form of remembrance some laud for its continuity
By Stewart Ain
Mark Dreyfus speaks in Parliament House on January 19, 2026, in Canberra, Australia. (Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images via JTA)
January 21, 2026, 6:43 am
Mourner’s Kaddish recited in Australian parliament for Bondi Beach attack victims
‘You don’t have to be Jewish to feel this in your chest, an attack like this hurts all of us,’ Mark Dreyfus tells fellow MPs as they pass tougher gun and hate speech laws
By Grace Gilson
Micaela Diamond (L) and Ben Platt during the opening night curtain call for 'Parade' at New York City Center, November 1, 2022. (Bruce Glikas/WireImage/GettyImages via JTA)
June 10, 2023, 12:49 pm
Broadway’s ‘Parade’ cast says Mourner’s Kaddish before performances
Star Micaela Diamond says before almost every show, they stand in a circle and say Jewish prayer for the dead
By Jackie Hajdenberg
From left: Sammi Rotibi as 'Nate' and John Berchtold as 'Isaac' in 'The Forbidden Wish' (Underdog Overkill Productions)
May 4, 2021, 3:42 am
Convinced he’s dead, a young man asks a rabbi to recite mourner’s prayer for him
Michael Carnick writes and directs ‘The Forbidden Wish,’ an intense encounter between an Ethiopian-Israeli rabbi and a US Jew who talk racism, faith and the meaning of life
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad. (Andre Garcia)
January 25, 2021, 3:43 pm
29-year-old composer releases ‘Kaddish’ for survivor grandfather on top label
In new a cappella choral work, Swedish art music composer Jacob Mühlrad holds a dialogue with his deceased grandfather, using his harrowing testimony and texts by Elie Wiesel
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Worshipers at the Prima Palace isolation hotel. (Courtesy)
April 13, 2020, 1:15 am
At isolation hotels, COVID-carrying worshipers say Kaddish for those who cannot
Reeling from virus bereavements and unable to sit shiva in normal way, Jewish mourners worldwide are turning to Israeli hotels where patients stay together and pray together
By Nathan Jeffay
French Rebbe Philippe Haddad prepares the Shabbat service for visioconference to address congregation members at the Copernic Synagogue in Paris on March 28, 2020, on the twelfth day of a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) in France. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
April 3, 2020, 7:46 am
Online Kaddish, Shabbat burials: Jewish legal authorities grapple with pandemic
Coronavirus outbreak has prompted an unprecedented flurry of questions for rabbis on how to adapt group prayers, seders, and ritual immersion to crisis
By Ben Harris
A man walks over the rubble after a bomb exploded at the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 1994. (AFP/Ali Burafi)
July 7, 2019, 11:54 pm
Musical Kaddish/requiem to be performed for 1994 Jewish center bombing victims
As 25th anniversary of terror attack against Argentine Jewish community nears, rabbi and composer team up for concert with 200 on stage at iconic Buenos Aires theater
By JTA
Nathan Englander (Joshua Meier)
March 29, 2019, 3:32 am
After outsourcing kaddish, son faces a world of regret in new Englander novel
Fatherhood moved Nathan Englander to delve into his own soul — for his daughter, and new novel, ‘Kaddish.com,’ which takes readers on a journey into the secular-religious divide
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Demonstrators at a Kaddish for Gaza event in London, May 16, 2018. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)
July 18, 2018, 3:12 am
British teen leader sparks fresh controversy with new Israel tour job
Nina Morris-Evans, who participated in a Jewish mourning event for Gazans, will join a Liberal Judaism summer program despite being dropped by the Reform movement
By JTA and ToI Staff
Demonstrators at a Kaddish for Gaza event in London, May 16, 2018. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)
July 3, 2018, 9:07 pm
UK Jewish leader who publicly mourned Gazans fired from leading Israel teen tour
Reform youth group reverses previous decision regarding Nina Morris-Evans, who attended Kaddish for Gaza event in London
By JTA and ToI Staff
Handmaids in Tel Aviv, June 22, 2017. (Courtesy of HOT)
May 26, 2018, 8:53 am
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ season 2: One of the most powerful scenes involves a rabbi
In contrast to show’s grim setback, writers provide a genuinely touching moment when two women who meet at a colony work camp fall in love and are married by Jewish clergy member
By Gabe Friedman
A group of Jews gather in Parliament Square, London, to recite kaddish for 62 Palestinians killed in Gaza, on May 16, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)
May 26, 2018, 5:57 am
A Jewish prayer gathering for Gaza victims makes British Jews lose their cool
Group reciting mourning benediction for Palestinians killed by IDF in border clashes leads to uncharacteristically toxic debate within Jewish community
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Robert Festenstein
May 25, 2018, 12:33 pm
Robert Festenstein
Remember those existential threats to Israel?
If you have no memory of the palpable risk of Israel’s destruction, you might just say kaddish for terrorists
A group of Jews gather in Parliament Square, London, to recite kaddish for 62 Palestinians killed in Gaza, on May 16, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)
May 17, 2018, 4:32 pm
Dozens of London Jews say Kaddish for Palestinians killed in Gaza
Group berated by angry interloper who says that 50 of the dead were Hamas operatives, blames activists for deaths of Jews
By JTA and ToI Staff
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