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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I first joined a Jewish burial society, known as a chevra kadisha, as a college student. At the time, I had recently converted to Judaism, and the work — preparing the dead for burial according to ...

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 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 ...

Not all funerals are the same, even within Judaism. Here are the Jewish funeral etiquette guidelines you need to know to pay your respects properly. I’ve long been fascinated by the differences in ...

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 ...