Miami Community Newspapers on MSN

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 avoidable situations simply because the right conversations did not happen ...
The Forward

In Normandy, a Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave will receive a proper burial 80 years later

Growing up, Samantha Baskind’s father would sometimes mention his “Uncle Nate,” who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. He called Nate “a great Jewish American war hero,” often just around ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Jewish Soldier Found in a German Mass Grave Has Been Reburied in an American Cemetery

Baskind was buried under a Star of David with full military honors at the Normandy American Cemetery in France this week. Julien Nguyen-Kim / American Battle Monuments Commission An American Jewish ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Growing number of Jews using NY’s first Reform chevra kadisha burial society

Discussions around the creation of the burial society helped spark growing interest among Reform Jews in Jewish ritual burial and other end-of-life issues. When members of the year-old Reform Communal ...
The Forward on MSN

The Jewish women who kept Confederate graves from disappearing

In June 1866, just over a year after the Civil War ended, young Jewish men in Richmond, Virginia, removed their coats and set ...
The Times of Israel

Why Abraham Bought A Burial Plot For Sarah and Jacob Wasn’t Cremated

There are moments when Jewish law speaks not as a system of rules, but as a cry of conscience. The obligation of kevurah—the burial of the dead—is one of those moments. In an age that prizes personal ...
Jewish Journal

Jewish burial for boy marred in Madrid

A 13-year-old boy was buried in a special section in Madrid’s Jewish cemetery because he had a Conservative conversion. Gai Ben-David died last weekend after suffering for years from brain cancer. He ...
CBS News

How a gravestone conservator is helping preserve a historic Jewish cemetery in Pennsylvania and honoring its history

GLADWYNE, Pa. (CBS) — The Har Hasetim in Gladwyne was founded by several Jewish burial societies in the 1890s and had its last burial in 1945. Now, people are working to conserve the cemetery and ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A Jewish bridge builder’s burial, 15 years late: The strange afterlife of Lawrence Rubin

PETOSKEY, Michigan — The cemetery of this northern resort community, with a view of the glimmering waters of Little Traverse Bay, has a small Jewish section. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, the ...
WRBL

A Sacred Commitment: Eden Memorial Jewish Funeral Home and Chapel in New Jersey Upholds Jewish Burial Traditions

Eden Memorial Jewish Funeral Home and Chapel New Jersey provides both chapel and graveside services, with funerals led by family clergy or rabbis. The facility accommodates varying levels of ...
The Jewish Exponent

Growing Number of Jews Using NY’s First Reform Chevra Kadisha Burial Society

When members of the year-old Reform Communal Chevra Kadisha of New York complete their work preparing a Jewish body for burial, they take a few minutes to stand together around the closed coffin.