Category: Mourning & Bereavement

I cannot visit my father’s grave because he doesn't have one. 

An artistic validation of the many textures of grief

How could I replace an empty exercise with something meaningful?

New boats come each week as the familiar ones start to leave. You connect, once a week, to the lost soul...

Ritual helps us pay attention. From the joy of a recovery to the grief of a funeral, ritual helps us inhabit the breadth of human experience.

The holiday of Tisha B’Av, the 9th of Av, compels us to see boundaries differently—instead of separating out personal loss from communal loss ... we compact grief into one uniting experience

What do we do when our Jewish practices are painful, when instead of anticipation and joy one is filled with hesitancy and dread?

Carl Jung explains a concept called synchronicity, which means that events can be “meaningful coincidences” if they are not causally related but seem to have a particular connection.

Building queer family is an act of resistance.

When I have been in moments of grief and someone tells me, “You will learn so much from this,” I want to scream.