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    Essay

    The Moth­ers’ Kaddish

    Post­ed by Nat BernsteinWe are all still reel­ing from the past weeks of ter­ror and grief over the mur­ders of Naf­tali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrah, three Jew­ish young…
    Nat Bern­stein
    July 11, 2014
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    Con­so­la­tion: The Spir­i­tu­al Jour­ney Beyond Grief
    Maurice Lamm
    Essay

    The One Thing You Should Do the Day Before You Die

    Ear­li­er this week, NY Times best-sell­ing author Sara David­son wrote about talk­ing to your par­ents about death and about she came to write her mem­oir The Decem­ber Project…
    Sara David­son
    March 28, 2014
    Essay

    How to Have ​“The Talk”

    Ear­li­er this week, NY Times best-sell­ing author Sara David­son wrote about she came to write her mem­oir The Decem­ber Project (Harper­One), which is based…
    Sara David­son
    March 26, 2014
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    Kad­dish: Wom­en’s Voices
    Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas
    Non­fic­tion
    Where’s My Mir­a­cle? Explor­ing Jew­ish Tra­di­tions For Deal­ing with Tragedy
    Morey Schwartz
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    Par­ent­less Par­ents: How the Loss of Our Moth­ers and Fathers Impacts the Way We Raise Our Children
    Alli­son Gilbert
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    May God Remem­ber — Yizkor: Mem­o­ry and Memo­ri­al­iz­ing in Judaism (Prayers of Awe)
    Lawrence A. Hoffman
    Essay

    Mourn­ing the Loss of a Non-Jew­ish Parent

    Gayle Redling­shafer Berman is co-author, with her hus­band Harold, of Dou­blelife: One Family,Two Faiths and a Jour­ney of Hope, the first true-life account of ​“an…
    Gayle Redling­shafer Berman
    July 16, 2013
    Essay

    Joan­na Her­shon and the Memorial

    Joan­na Her­shon​’s most recent nov­el, A Dual Inher­i­tance, was pub­lished ear­li­er this month by Bal­lan­tine Books. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
    Joan­na Hershon
    May 20, 2013
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    Faith Unrav­els: A Rab­bi’s Strug­gle with Grief and God
    Daniel Grey­ber
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    How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick
    Let­ty Cot­tin Pogrebin
    Cover of Crash: A Mother, a Son, and the Journey from Grief
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    Crash: A Moth­er, a Son, and the Jour­ney from Grief
    Car­olyn Roy-Bornstein
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    Non­fic­tion
    Hap­pi­er End­ings: A Med­i­ta­tion on Life and Death
    Erica Brown
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    Before and After Loss: A Neu­rol­o­gist’s Per­spec­tive on Loss, Grief and Our Brain
    Lisa Shul­man
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    Say­ing Good­bye: A Hand­book for Teens Deal­ing with Loss and Mourning
    Neal C. Goldberg; Miriam Lieberman
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