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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

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A public bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered during the October 7 massacre one year ago, on a road near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 11, 2024, 2:23 am
One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning
Leaders try to find ways to ritualize grief, with some putting out supplements to the usual prayers that focus on the tragedy and 12 months of conflict with no end in sight
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Friends and family of the victims of the Nova music festival massacre gather at the site of the massacre in southern Israel one year after the attack, October 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 11:55 pm
Oct. 7 ceremonies across Israel see mix of searing grief, political tensions
One year after massacre, several major and countless smaller ceremonies take place, as the country grapples with grim anniversary at same time as ongoing war and internal division
By Deborah Danan
Adi Levy-Slama, who lost five relatives during the October 7 attack, attends memorial ceremony for the Kutz family at the Gan-Yavne cemetery in southern Israeli town of Be'er Tuvia on September 5, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
September 23, 2024, 11:34 am
Pain still raw for relatives of slain Kutz family as they visit Kfar Aza again
Relatives revisit scene of October 7 attack as Jewish period of mourning ends, almost a year after Hamas terrorists murdered Livnat, Aviv, Rotem, Yonatan and Yiftach
By AFP and ToI Staff
Adam Hajaj speaks during a rally for hostages in Gaza in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
August 12, 2024, 3:54 pm
October 7 trauma reconnects Israelis with a 2,000-year-old Jewish day of mourning
Thousands of synagogues prepare to feature lamentations about the Hamas atrocities, on Tisha B’Av, a fast day that commemorates historical – and now contemporary – tragedies
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Ilan Glazer (drums) and his band, featuring wife Sherri on vocals, perform at the 'Gam Ki Elech' album release show on January 14, 2024. (Maranda Kosten via Ilan Glazer/ via JTA)
February 19, 2024, 2:27 am
When Judaism didn’t offer rituals for a stillbirth, a grieving couple created their own
After losing their son 26 weeks into a long-sought pregnancy, Ilan and Sherri Glazer found no liturgy for their loss. They’re releasing a new album inspired by their experience
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Daniela Garin with her late husband's friends from the army as she mourns him in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2024. (Maya Zanger-Nadis/ToI)
January 31, 2024, 11:11 am
After soldier’s death in Gaza, Filipino family finds comfort in Jewish mourning practice
Hundreds pay condolence calls for Sgt. First Class Cedrick Garin, as his parents fight to become Israeli citizens after their son made the ultimate sacrifice for the State of Israel
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Rabbi Jennifer Weinstein inside Gutterman's Funeral Home, May 15, 2020, Woodbury, New York. (Photo by Jonathan Alpeyrie/Polaris Images)
May 11, 2021, 3:47 am
US synagogues touched by COVID adapt to serve grieving congregations
Reeling under a staggering number of deaths, many communities create support groups, hold online memorial services and hire social workers to help congregants cope with losses
By Stewart Ain
Photos of the Krieger family and a graphic t-shirt of the word 'orbisculate,' which Hilary and Jonathan Krieger are working to get into the dictionary in honor of their late father, Neil. (Courtesy)
March 18, 2021, 3:35 am
You can’t look it up… yet: Siblings seek to honor late dad with ‘orbisculate’
After losing their father Neil to COVID-19 last year, his children are on a mission to commemorate him by having a term he coined officially added to the English lexicon
By Cathryn J. Prince
Zooming in to reciting Kaddish, the mourners' prayer, at home. (Photo montage, Gil Be'eri)
March 9, 2021, 4:53 am
US Jews in mourning are finding unexpected comfort in virtual minyans
As the pandemic ravaged the United States, some feared they were doomed to mourn in social isolation, but online gatherings allow them to commemorate loved ones and be consoled
By Asaf Shalev
Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik attends an event in Jerusalem on August 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 12, 2021, 2:37 am
A year of grief: Orthodox Jewry reels as COVID-19 hastens the loss of its rabbis
The relentless deaths have hit all sides of the diverse community, leaving many to wonder who can possibly step up to fill their fallen leaders’ shoes
By Shira Hanau
Alex Goldstein curates the Faces of COVID Twitter account, which showcases Americans who have died in the pandemic. (Illustration by Grace Yagel/ JTA)
October 17, 2020, 3:03 am
Man behind Faces of COVID Twitter account tweets to make US confront its grief
Amplifying Judaism’s communal approach to mourning, Alex Goldstein has memorialized thousands of coronavirus victims and gathered 80,000 followers since March
By PHILISSA CRAMER
The COVID-19 memorial installed at Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts, July 12, 2020 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
July 14, 2020, 4:17 pm
Boston Jews inaugurate COVID-19 memorial to help cope with ‘insurmountable loss’
Community used recent Jewish fast day to mourn COVID-19 victims and dedicate a memorial garden at historic complex of 42 cemeteries
By Matt Lebovic
Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jason B. Rosenthal on a trip to Florida in 2017. (Courtesy of Jason Rosenthal)
June 18, 2020, 4:00 am
Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s husband pens memoir about getting ‘permission’ to move on
Jason Rosenthal picks up where his wife’s unforgettable New York Times Modern Love essay, which she wrote on her deathbed, left off — with a blank space in which to make a future
By Cindy Sher
Illustrative: Israelis mourn teens drowned in flash flooding, April 27, 2018. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2020, 3:14 am
With communal mourning a health hazard, grieving US Jews must sit shiva alone
Families and communities traditionally converge after a loss, but bereaved are now being forced to face their tragedy alone, without even a quorum to recite the prayer for the dead
By Ben Harris
Yakoub Rabi, 52, at a hall in Biddya, a village in the northern West Bank, on October 15, 2018. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)
October 15, 2018, 11:18 pm
Palestinian man pleads for justice after wife killed in highway stoning
Yakoub Rabi, 52, insists that settlers hurled a stone at his car, which hit his wife Aisha’s head, killing her, last Friday night; Israeli authorities probing incident
By Adam Rasgon
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