When Alicia Jo Rabins wrote “A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff,” she had no idea it would come out the year Bernie Madoff actually died. “Wow. It’s an odd experience to have my phone blowing up because ...

(RNS) — It has been five years since my father died at the almost biblical age of 98, and I still cannot find his grave. There is a reason for that. He and my late stepmother chose to be buried in a ...

When I recite Yizkor during Yom Kippur, I think of my mother, hunched over praying in the women’s section of the orthodox shul we attended during my childhood in Argentina. She cried while imploring ...