The Jewish Exponent

‘It’s an Obligation’: Efforts Ongoing to Institutionalize Dignified Burial, Cemetery Restoration

A simple, traditional Jewish funeral costs about $7,500-8,500, according to Joseph Levine & Sons Funeral Home partner Brian Levine. That’s with a plain, wooden casket and no limousines, flowers or ...
Orlando 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

Why small town Jews buried their dead in big cities — and what those journeys reveal today

The train that carried John Friday’s body from Athens, Ohio, in October 1886, was headed three hours west to Cincinnati for burial at the Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery. Yet even as the burial took ...
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.
The Forward

An Arizona cemetery now requires mourners to leave before burial. A rabbi plans to sue.

At Jewish funerals, the final act is often the simplest: The casket is lowered into the earth, mourners take turns with a shovel, and the grave slowly fills. It is a moment many rabbis describe as the ...
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 ...