Here in California, we’ve lived under shelter-in-place orders for so long, I’ve practically forgotten what not sheltering-in-place feels like! I’ve covered my “good” clothes with tissue paper, so they ...

More than a century ago, the story goes, a boy with polio was abandoned at an orphanage in Nebraska. He had to be carried up and down the stairs by the other boys. When asked if this was hard, one of ...

Jews light yahrzeit candles to commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day, but keeping a flame alive for hours may not be possible for some students in college dorms or the elderly ...

This week, I light two memorial candles: tonight is the first yahrzeit of my dear friend Shirley, who died last year on 1 Sivan. Tomorrow night, my memories will turn to my beloved father, who died on ...

The use of yahrzeit candles is a widely practiced custom in the Jewish faith. Mourners light one, which burns for 24 hours, on the anniversary of the death of a loved one. (The word “yahrzeit” means ...

Cheshvan 11, which falls on Octobr 26 this year, is the yahrzeit of Rachel Imenu, Rachel the Matriarch, or as she is called in Yiddish, Mame Rochel. One that day, many thousands are accustomed to ...

Writer’s note: This column is an updated version of one I published in 2022. I am re-printing it, modified, in commemoration of the passing of my maternal grandmother, who passed on May 6, 39 years ...

It was the 26th of Tammuz. The sun was slowly sinking behind the clouds over the Old Montefiore Cemetery, the burial place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, zt”l. I had come to commemorate the yahrzeit of my ...

Both Democrats also expressed concern for Palestinians in Gaza in their official Oct. 7 anniversary statements. WASHINGTON — In separate statements marking the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on ...

Is there a need for me to really stock up on yahrzeit candles? I don’t think so. I always have a fairly good supply in my candles cabinet. No, not because I have so many to light during the year.

In a few days, it will be my birthday. But in keeping with my religious tradition, please don’t send me any gifts. That’s because there is no prescribed celebration of birthdays in the Jewish ...