Jewish MPs join chamber in prayer of mourning for Bondi victims

The nation’s House of Representatives on Monday rose to its feet in support of Labor’s most senior Jewish MP has he recited ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Jewish group in Chicago recites prayer for Palestinians, Israelis killed in conflict

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CBS News

Jewish communities holding mourner's kaddish in Chicago honoring Israelis, Palestinians

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Jewish Press

Their Last Day Of Saying Kaddish

Some 1,200 families will soon finish saying the Mourner’s Kaddish for their loved ones who were murdered on Simchat Torah, October 7. The custom is to recite the Kaddish prayer three times daily for ...
Sun Sentinel

Prayer in Judaism: Does God really require me to say every word in the Siddur? | Commentary

After 50 years leading various congregations in prayer as a Hazzan, an ordained Cantor, I am at a crossroads. Does God hear my prayers? Must I recite every prayer line-by-line, even though, admittedly ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Religious Association Engages Professional “kaddish Sayers” for Members

The Kaddish, the name of the prayer for the dead, is no longer a synonym for “son” in the vocabulary of Russian Jews, as it has been for hundreds of years until the outbreak of the Communist ...
Newsday

Prayer service held for 'forgotten' Jewish psychiatric patients buried in Central Islip

About two dozen people gathered Sunday morning around the gravestone of Helen Zimmerman to say a prayer for her and roughly 100 other Jewish patients buried decades ago at the former Central Islip ...