A new Sefer Torah will be started in Crown Heights on Thursday evening in memory of Rabbi Yishai Kalachy a”h, marking his ...

(RNS and NPR) — In Jewish tradition, after someone dies, the anniversary of their death is marked by lighting a yahrzeit candle. Taking their name from the Yiddish word for “year-time,” yahrzeit ...

Matriarch Rachel’s yahrzeit is on the 11th of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, which falls on Saturday night and Sunday, November 2nd this year and large crowds of worshipers, especially girls and women, ...

In Jewish tradition, after someone dies, the anniversary of their death is marked by lighting a yahrzeit candle. It comes in a stubby glass holder. In some families, that old glass found a new use. In ...

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My grandfather died in Buchenwald concentration camp on March 10, 1945, just weeks before his two surviving sons were liberated from that same camp. That was the information my father and uncle had at ...

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 ...

In Jewish tradition, after someone dies, the anniversary of their death is marked by lighting a yahrzeit candle. It comes in a stubby glass holder. And after the candle has burned, you're left with ...

Wednesday night, the eve of 2 Elul 5773 marks the 67th yahrzeit of the Damesek Eliezer of Vishnitz ZT”L, a son of the Ahavas Yisrael of Vishnitz ZT”L. The Damesek Eliezer was vital in his role in ...

(RNS and NPR) — Using candles to mark the yahrzeit, the anniversary of a death, is mentioned in Jewish tradition as far back as the Middle Ages. But the mass-produced glass holders came later. (RNS ...