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A Jewish perspective on burial and cremation

I write these words after far too many tears shed together with bereaved families-families placed in painful and often ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Numbers mark the graves at a former psychiatric hospital’s Jewish cemetery. Families want names — and answers.

An agreement between a nearby Jewish school of law and the state will help families identify the graves of loved ones. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — While researching his family tree, Brian Madigan ...
WRBL

Dust to Dust: How Jewish burial traditions in Columbus have changed due to COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis has caused long-held traditions to change, even those held deeply and faithfully across multiple generations. While other religious organizations have been able to transition ...
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Why Abraham Bought A Burial Plot For Sarah and Jacob Wasn’t Cremated

A Jewish body wrapped tefillin, gave charity, lit Shabbat candles, embraced children, stood in prayer, and carried a soul ...
CNN

How Jews and Muslims are burying their coronavirus dead

The women gently pour purifying water for the woman in the coffin. A soul on the threshold deserves the utmost care. When the ritual concludes, the body is ready for the earth, the soul for the ...
The Forward

After tweaking rituals during the pandemic, a Jewish burial society in Pittsburgh has made amends

PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA) — Tahara, the act of washing and purifying the deceased, is paramount to Jewish burial. So when the pandemic descended on the United States in March ...
New York Magazine

‘Cared for, for Eternal Life’: Jewish Burial in the Age of COVID-19

Dignity for the dead for members of the Jewish community is something Chesed Shel Emes, a grassroots network of volunteers, has worked toward since the 1980s. No matter the obstacle, they never say ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

EU gives $1.1 million toward preserving Jewish burial sites

The funding will help three Jewish groups survey at least 3,000 cemeteries by 2021, those organizations said. (JTA) — The European Union has allocated $1.1 million toward mapping and preserving Jewish ...
Sun Sentinel

Citing failure to meet Jewish veterans’ burial needs, Moskowitz seeks improvement from federal agency

Moskowitz, a Broward/Palm Beach county Democrat, was joined by U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Miami-Dade/Collier county Republican, in citing three issues — wait times, the length of time allowed for ...
The Forward

Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg having a Jewish burial? Here’s what we know so far.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s private funeral service in the Supreme Court on Wednesday was presided over by Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. “Justice Ginsburg, ...