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The Greatest Gift: Eternal Rest in Eretz Hakodesh

By Tova Point

What greater kindness could there be than honoring your parents and bringing them for burial in the Holy Land?

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The Ultimate Dream of Every Diaspora Jew

By Sponsored Post

Burial in Jerusalem is not beyond your reach.

Photo of the Day

Burying the Past

By Photo of the Day

Remnants of Torah scrolls are buried in the Warsaw, Poland Jewish cemetery.

Fuchs' Focus

Pre-Emptive Attack or Premature Burial

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!

Lessons In Emunah

A Jewish Burial - Whatever The Price

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.

Israel / News Briefs / Archaeology

First Philistine Cemetery Discovered in Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

"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."

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Israeli Volunteer Organization Solves Mystery of Cadaver in Cardboard Box

By JNi.Media

The airport's cargo crew on the graveyard shift found the body in the box.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs

Israel Capitulates -- Returns Bodies of Nar Nof Terrorists

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Police said on Nov, 18: “One way to cope with the recent wave of attacks…is not to return the bodies to the families.”

US / News Briefs / Judaism

Alternative Group Replaces Orthodox Society at Boston Funeral Home

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 […]

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Beginning The Journey

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.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs / Religion

New York Synagogues Bury 12 Torah Scrolls, Victims of Sandy

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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