Heart and Soul: Kaddish - why we pray for the dead
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, once told Michael Goldfarb of people going to their deaths at Auschwitz asking who will say Kaddish for me? Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the ...
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Jewish minyan held on PM’s plane to let ex-hostage’s dad say Kaddish for his late wife
asks for passengers on the flight to create a quorum so he can say the Kaddish Jewish mourning prayer for his recently deceased wife Liora. The Mincha minyan, or quorum of 10 Jewish men — led by ...
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Iranian Jew’s execution reportedly delayed just before country’s president dies in helicopter crash
(JTA) — An Iranian Jew who has been sentenced to death has reportedly received a one-month stay of execution after a global pressure campaign that included calls for prayer in Persian Jewish ...
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After synagogue gunman’s death sentence, Pittsburgh’s Jews feel relief, resilience — and gratitude
The prayer, he said, thanks God ... a small contingent of local Jews who cited Jewish laws saying that the death penalty should be rare in the extreme organized. Of the nine families, the ...
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Kaddish: Why we pray for the dead
Kadish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. On the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz' liberation Goldfarb visits the remains of the death camp and explores the origins of Kaddish, and why the Jewish ...