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I suppose that Kol Nidrei is still the best-attended service of the Jewish calendar, but surely the memorial service known as Yizkor is a close second. After all, Yizkor — which means “May God ...

BOB FAW, correspondent: For people of faith, services which acknowledge, indeed commemorate, death can bring comfort or anguish. Thomas Beveridge’s Yizkor Requiem recognizes both. Performed here by ...

The sense of renewal surrounding death in Judaism refers both to those who survive and to the one who has died. The Yizkor prayer, recited primarily among Ashkenazi Jews, asks God to remember our ...

For millennia, the closing of Passover (Pesach) is signified by the incantation of Yizkor; a prayer ritual which is recognized throughout the Jewish world. From near and far, its heart-rending ...

Yom Kippur always struck me as one of the constants in modern Jewish life. While virtually everything outside of its precincts seems to be in a continuous state of flux, this holiday holds its own.

Rye bread, sour milk, and maybe some herring — for a poor Jew, these were the makings of a meal. The Jews I have in mind were residents of the small market towns, or shtetls, once strewn across ...

On the last festival day of Passover, Ashkenazi synagogues will be reciting Yizkor for the first time since the war began on October 7. Many people, like myself, first began to hear about the Hamas ...

My friends and I, milling around outside Asbury Park New Jersey’s Temple Beth El, were trying to outsmart each other. One said to me, “Whatever I say, you must reply ‘just like me’.” “Okay.” “I got up ...

Editor's Note: Click here for a news update on the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Shoah. In the Hungarian village of Csenger, by the banks of the river Smoosh, in the pages in a yizkor book, a dead ...

On Shavuot we fulfill one of the daily six remembrances, namely the receiving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, on the sixth day of Sivan in the year 2448. The Jewish people have a Mitzvah obligation to ...