Thus, Columbus' subterfuge allowed his sons to say Kaddish for their crypto-Jewish father when he died.

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During the service, survivors recited a psalm and a Kaddish prayer for the dead as they lit candles and laid wreaths.

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Mourners recite the Kaddish prayer three times that day, go to synagogue and light a candle that burns for 24 hours.

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The composer's political inspirations stretch back to previous works including his third symphony, 2010's "Poems and Prayers, " which set Israeli and Arab poetry and the Jewish Kaddish to music.

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The army's chief rabbi chanted ( 275K AIFF sound or 275K WAV sound) kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer ( 290K AIFF sound or 290K WAV sound) for the dead.

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According to British historian Cecil Roth's "The History of the Marranos, " the anagram was a cryptic substitute for the Kaddish, a prayer recited in the synagogue by mourners after the death of a close relative.

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He would say Kaddish for her on her death day, and on his first visit to Auschwitz, in 1983, he slipped away to kneel in the grass among the barracks, in his archiepiscopal robes with his scarlet skull-cap, and cry.

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How can this be worse than sleeping on top of her parents' graves, saying Kaddish so many times the words ran together like nonsense, worse than sitting for days by the Pripiat River, watching for a little sock or Sophie's blue petticoat, sitting in the mud in only a nightgown and blanket, until the weather changed and Mariam came with the flier for America?

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