A few months ago, Gazans uploaded videos of Gazans burying people.
By Tova Point
What greater kindness could there be than honoring your parents and bringing them for burial in the Holy Land?
Burial in Jerusalem is not beyond your reach.
The laws of burying the dead in Judaism.
Remnants of Torah scrolls are buried in the Warsaw, Poland Jewish cemetery.
By Donny Fuchs
The incident in Karnei Shomron should be a warning. Security personnel tasked with protecting a community shirked their duty in the face of Arab terror. Be alert!
By Ann Goldberg
After several sleepless days, the team had been able to speak with the Guamanian and United States funeral homes, the airline, and the widow.
"99% of the chapters and articles written about Philistine burial customs should be revised or ignored now that we have the first and only Philistine cemetery found just outside the city walls of Tel Ashkelon."
By JNi.Media
The airport's cargo crew on the graveyard shift found the body in the box.
Police said on Nov, 18: “One way to cope with the recent wave of attacks…is not to return the bodies to the families.”
By JTA
A new non-denominational Jewish burial society has replaced an Orthodox one at a Boston-area Jewish funeral home. Community Hevra Kadisha of Greater Boston, which launched this fall and is part of a growing movement of Jewish burial societies that include non-Orthodox volunteers, began performing tahara – the ritual preparation of bodies for burial – at […]
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
The purchase of the Cave of Machpelah is evidently a highly significant event because it is recorded in great detail.
Approximately 1000 people participated on Sunday in the burial of approximately 12 Torahs scrolls that sustained irreparable damage in Hurricane Sandy seven months ago. More than 40 synagogues were represented at the ceremony in Far Rockaway. The Torah scrolls were from synagogues in Far Rockaway, Belle Harbor, Bayswater, Oceanside and Seagate. The burials were not […]