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By Anita Diamant

ISBN-10: 0805212183

ISBN-13: 9780805212181

Anita Diamant's wisdom, sensitivity, and readability have made her the most revered writers of courses to Jewish existence. In Saying Kaddish, she exhibits how one can make Judaism's known rituals into own, significant resources of convenience. Diamant publications the reader via Jewish practices that attend the top of lifestyles, from the sickroom to the funeral to the week, month, and 12 months that stick to. There are chapters describing the normal Jewish funeral and the customs of Shiva, the 1st week after demise while mourners are comforted and cared for through group, associates, and family members. She additionally explains the secure prestige of Jewish mourners, who're exempt from tasks of social, company, and non secular existence in the course of Shloshim, the 1st thirty days. and he or she offers targeted directions for the rituals of Yizkor and Yahrzeit, in addition to chapters approximately taking good care of grieving childrens, mourning the dying of a kid, neonatal loss, suicide, and the dying of non-Jewish household.

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12 Quite a few of the victims of the Utøya massacre were Muslims. The first one to be buried of all the 77 victims was Bano Rashid, an 18-year-old girl. The Rashid family came as Kurdish refugees from Irak to Norway in 1996. Bano was a brilliant student and youth politician, stressing her multicultural identity, and her belief in democracy, feminism and anti-racism. She was buried in a ceremony led by both a Christian vicar, Anne Marit Tronvik, and a Muslim imam, Senaid Kobilica, who is also leader of the Islamic Council in Norway.

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