Sruli Fruchter

When I was in high school, I loved mock trial. For those unfamiliar with the “sport,” picture the Law & Order courtroom…

Our mourning on Tisha B’Av is less about the Beit HaMikdash’s absence and more about the significance of that absence. That was…

“The fundamental purpose of the condolence call during shivah is to relieve the mourner of the intolerable burden of intense loneliness,” Rabbi…

You never think it could happen to you. We read headlines of tragedy, visit homes of grief, and see faces of loss.…

Ivan Kramskoi, a Russian painter of the 1800s, has this piece called, “Inconsolable Grief.” A bereaved woman stands in an elegant living…

“How the city that overflowed with people sits alone, become like a widow; she who was great among the nations, princess of…

Once those we love are gone, can we ever encounter them again? The question may appear to nod toward witchcraft like a…

The frail, dry branches in the Monsey woods drooped as the winter snow piled upon them. My friend Yehuda, an amateur photographer…