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Items with the tag:

death & mourning

Cover of Keep Fighting, Stop Struggling: The Miles Levin Story
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Keep Fight­ing, Stop Strug­gling: The Miles Levin Story
Miles and Jonathan Levin
Cover of The Mystery of the Kaddish: Its Profound Influence on Judaism
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The Mys­tery of the Kad­dish: Its Pro­found Influ­ence on Judaism
Leon Charney
Cover of And God Created Hope: Finding Your Way Through Grief With Lessons From Early Biblical Stories
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And God Cre­at­ed Hope: Find­ing Your Way Through Grief With Lessons From Ear­ly Bib­li­cal Stories
Mel Glazer
Cover of Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
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Star­ing at the Sun: Over­com­ing the Ter­ror of Death
Irvin D. Yalom
Cover of Manless in Montclair; How a Happily Married Woman Became a Widow Looking for Love in the Wilds of Suburbia
Fic­tion
Man­less in Mont­clair; How a Hap­pi­ly Mar­ried Woman Became a Wid­ow Look­ing for Love in the Wilds of Suburbia
Amy Holman Edelman
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Bear­ing the Body
Ehud Havazelet
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The Gift of Grief
Matthew D. Gewirtz
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A Wid­ow’s Tale
Dina Bar-Tov
Cover of Dignity Beyond Death: The Jewish Preparation for Burial
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Dig­ni­ty Beyond Death: The Jew­ish Prepa­ra­tion for Burial
Rochel U. Berman; Rabbi Irving Greenberg, fwd.
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Jew­ish Ethics and the Care of End-of-Life Patients: A Col­lec­tion of Rab­bini­cal, Bioeth­i­cal, Philo­soph­i­cal, and Juris­tic Opinions
Peter Joel Hurwitz, Jacques Picard, Avraham Steinberg, eds.
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The Jew­ish Way in Death and Mourning
Maurice Lamm
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Chil­dren’s
Juli­a’s Kitchen
Brenda A. Ferber
Essay

An Emp­ty Men­tal Space

Ear­li­er this week, Dr. Eri­ca Brown asked, ​“What are the Three Weeks, any­way?”, and wrote about learn­ing to mourn. Her new book, In the Nar­row Places,…
Eri­ca Brown
July 22, 2011
Essay

Learn­ing to Mourn

On Mon­day, Dr. Eri­ca Brown asked, ​“What are the Three Weeks, any­way?” She will be blog­ging all week for MyJew­ish­Learn­ing and the Jew­ish Book…
Eri­ca Brown
July 20, 2011
Essay

What Are the Three Weeks, Anyway?

Dr. Eri­ca Brown is the author of In the Nar­row Places, a dai­ly med­i­ta­tion for each day of the Three Weeks. She will be blog­ging all week…
Eri­ca Brown
July 18, 2011
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