But food isn’t only used for celebratory occasions — it’s also consumed in times of mourning, like the shiva. In Judaism, when someone dies, the family traditionally partakes in a seven ...

The parameters of the shiva mourning ritual seem daunting. Judaism guides us to sit in our homes for seven days. Of course, we have exceptions like attending synagogue on Shabbat or traveling from ...

Rabbi Natan Slifkin, author and director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh who also writes the blog “Rationalist Judaism,” addressed the issue in a blog post.

At a recent film screening on end-of-life care centering a Jewish family’s experience—a topic I was drawn to because of my ...

Here we explore the answers to key questions, such as whether autopsies are permitted under Jewish law, when to sit the shiva mourning period and how to calculate a yahrzeit if the date of death ...

Shiva is the first seven days of mourning after ... mark the anniversary of their loved one’s death. Making sure that a Jewish person has a proper burial is not only an act of kindness, it ...