mourners Archives – Jewish Journal

Creator of ‘30 Days’ Project aims to ease mourners’ grief and loss

Oren Peleg August 9, 2017

We Are All Mourners Now and Again by Rabbi Janet Madden

Rabbi Joe Blair July 23, 2017

When Prayer is Not Enough by Rabbi Janet Madden

Rabbi Joe Blair June 7, 2017

Israelis mourn after a year of increased attacks

Jewish Journal April 28, 2015

At Combatants for Peace’s first commemoration 10 years ago, just a few hundred attended. This time around, the hall was filled beyond capacity. It was the largest memorial in Tel Aviv. Still, traditionally, Yom HaZikaron is about remembering soldiers who lost their lives while in the Israeli army. Their deaths are viewed as a sacrifice to the existence of the state of Israel. In that sense, Tel Aviv’s memorial, which rejects that narrative and casts soldiers’ deaths as victims in a political conflict, evoked shock and anger from many.\n

‘Martyr for Peace’

Donald H. Harrison August 8, 2002

Flags of the United States and Israel draped the simple pine coffin of Marla Bennett, the 24-year-old student laid to rest on Monday, at a service that emphasized Jewish solidarity in the face of terrorism.