“Shallow and pitiably trivial,” Rabbi Maurice Lamm called their use in “The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning.” “A petty gimmick.” But to me the ribbon was more gift than gimmick.

The actor Jon Hamm arrives wearing a torn black ribbon, customarily worn by Jewish mourners to approximate the tradition of rending one’s clothing upon learning of the death of a close family ...

The mourners also tear their clothes or, more commonly, wear a black ribbon for 30 days that is torn at the grave. Mourners who have lost a parent wear the ribbons on their left side and on the ...

Riots broke out in Crown Heights back in 1991, after a black child was killed by a Jewish driver. Here's more from WCBS : In the past month, 20-year-old Andrew Charles, who is black, was beaten up ...

The actor Jon Hamm arrives wearing a torn black ribbon, customarily worn by Jewish mourners to approximate the tradition of rending one’s clothing upon learning of the death of a close family ...