With the bodies of hostages set to return home, Jewish law raises complex questions—when to mourn, how to bury, and what to ...

At the soldier's funeral, the family asked that after the recitation of the Kaddish, a Jewish prayer in memory of the deceased, a Muslim prayer from a local mufti be included. Gurevich says that ...

The group Jews Against Gassing say Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to execute people using nitrogen gas is a "painful echo" of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Already unlikely, the prospects for creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel could vanish altogether if the United ...

Because of that uncertainty, last week, Zoosman sent Murphy a copy of the viddui, a traditional Jewish confessional prayer recited before death. “I’ve done that many times for people as a ...

African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, centre) at the third march from Selma to ...

Without the misguidance embodied by Satan, prophetic messages would not test the believers faith. Without distance, there can be no nearness; without wrong, no right; without darkness, no light. All ...

Approaching the site of one of the crematoria, two young Jewish men from an American group said the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the ... platform known as the "death road" which was the last ...

A man of faith, President Eisenhower’s heart was set on this path from a young age when prayer saved him from death after his ... as taken from the original Hebrew language.