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A MEMORIAL candle is lit for a deceased loved one.

'Our Names Do Not Appear': Struggles with grief without closure

By WENDY BLUMFIELD

Rabbi Albert Thaler leads a havdalah service at the Queensboro Hill Jewish Center, the synagogue where he worked for 25 years until, in 1980, becoming rabbi of Temple Gates of Prayer, also in Queens, New York.

Rabbi Albert Thaler, founding director of Ramah Nyack day camp, dies at 91

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

SAYING KADDISH at graves of fallen soldiers, on Remembrance Day at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl.

'Kaddish Around the World': Stories of Jewish mourners struggling to pray

THEN-US PRESIDENT Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Daniel Kahneman at the White House, in 2013.

How do you say farewell to a scientific giant like Daniel Kahneman?

By TALYA MIRON-SHATZ

Sgt.-Maj. Alon Kudriashov, 21, from Modi’in, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip.

Soldier from Modi’in killed in RPG attack in southern Gaza

By MAARIV ONLINE , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Uriel Baruch.

Hostage Uriel Baruch killed, body held captive in Gaza

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Holocaust survivor Ben Stern (blue shirt) leads 200 marchers in the "Bay Area Rally Against Hate" in Berkeley in August 2017. He is linking arms with his daughter Charlene Stern and Rabbi Menachem Creditor; Rabbi Yonatan Cohen of Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley is at far left.

Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who stood up to neo-Nazis in Skokie, dies at 102

By ALIX WALL/JTA

: Lord Jacob Rothschild speaks at an event marking the signing of an agreement between the state libraries of Israel and Russia, whereby one of the most treasured collections of ancient Hebrew manuscripts and books will be digitised and available for public view online, at the National Library of Is

Jewish, British banker Jacob Rothschild dies aged 87

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

WHY DID God create each of us with an incurable illness called… ‘Life’?!

Death and life in the Land of Israel

By STEWART WEISS

GIANT HEART model at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, one of the places Nadav visited with his family.

'More Than We Expected': Making sense of the unthinkable

By ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

‘PERHAPS IT’S the mourning of Miriam to which we should all aspire.’

How do you cope with loss? New US study sheds light

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Lawrence Langer's “Holocaust Testimonies,” published in 1991, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

Lawrence Langer, renowned scholar of Holocaust testimony, dies at 94

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Jewish martyrdom doesn’t worship death but ennobles life

What do the final letters of fallen soldiers say about them and Israel?

By MOSHE TARAGIN

Capt. (res.) Rebecca Henrietta Johanna Baruch

After her death, Israeli lone soldier's family donates her organs

By DR. ITAY GAL

From the trailer of "After Death"

Understanding the process of death: How you change when life ends

By Walla!

Closeup of a senior woman with an electronic hearing aid in her hand.

Hearing aids reduce the risk of death - study

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Emergency room at Shamir Medical Center in Be'er Ya'akov

Two killed, one injured in Lod shooting, police launch probe

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Death calculator

AI 'death calculator' can predict when you die - study

By MAARIV ONLINE