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BINTEL BRIEF I don’t belong to a synagogue. Can I be buried in a Jewish cemetery?
Bintel advises a reader who feels shut out of Jewish life — and Jewish death
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News Reform Jews say they’ve created their first New York City burial society
50 volunteers will follow the intricate Jewish laws governing the preparation of a Jewish body for burial
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Culture Preparing Jewish bodies for burial, an artist finds inspiration
'I could have painted landscapes,' says Karen Benioff Friedman. Instead, she's portraying the rituals around death.
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Opinion Volunteering for a Jewish burial society showed me how to live a more sacred life
The work of a Chevra Kadisha is done without promotion or fanfare, and is solely for the benefit of the deceased
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News 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, l’dor v’dor, from generation to generation,” said Holtzblatt. She also sang Psalm 23 in Hebrew. Rabbi Holtzblatt’s husband, Ari, was a clerk to Justice Ginsburg in…
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Fast Forward Burial society running out of prayer shawls to use as shrouds, seeks donations
A chevra kadisha society serving Queens and Long Island is facing a critical shortage of tallit and soliciting donations from the community. The society was short on essential supplies “due to the pandemic and the increased number of Jewish people who have passed away in recent weeks,” wrote a volunteer on Facebook. Chevra kadisha societies…
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News Burial society organization suggests new rituals; Brooklyn funeral home overwhelmed
An Orthodox funeral home in Brooklyn, where a video shows nine shrouded bodies stacked on the floor, is so overwhelmed that on Tuesday it called for volunteers with minivans and SUVs to ferry the dead to cemeteries for burial. In a message circulated via What’s App, Menachem A. Bloom, who works at the funeral home,…
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