(JTA) — A Jewish burial society has called for the removal of a London coroner over delayed Jewish burials. Mary Hassell, the senior coroner at the St. Pancras coroner’s office in central London, told Jewish leaders in a letter that “no death will be prioritized in any way over any other because of the religion of…
(JTA) – Human remains were dug up during construction work next to a Jewish cemetery in eastern Poland. The remains were unearthed on Tuesday, during work to modernize the power grid for the city of Siemiatycze. The ground where the remains were uncovered is adjacent to the fence of the Jewish cemetery. The case is…
We were living in Dublin when the first emergency phone call came in. My father, then 80, was heading into surgery in Baltimore. They ended up removing a lung and reaming out important arteries full of cancer. In my mind’s eye I saw the rogue cells that would then pump through his body and lodge…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Tzohar Rabbinical Organization has launched an initiative to offer support for bereaved families and help them navigate the bureaucracy of a halachic burial. Volunteer rabbis will staff the program, and accompany the family through the process. A state-funded funeral and burial are provided to all Jews who die in Israel. The…
Not long ago, Jean Bergman, an 88-year-old retired manicurist, received a check for $1,000. She deposited it without giving it too much thought. “I wasn’t told any of the details,” she said. The check arrived in connection with her husband’s grave at Eden Memorial Park, a Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles. The cemetery has been…
— Researchers recently uncovered in Jerusalem a stone burial slab that many believe Jesus Christ’s body may have been laid on following his death. The original surface of the tomb was uncovered in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City during restoration work and has been covered by marble cladding since at…
Budapest (Reuters)- Miklos Heisler was 17 when the Arrow Cross Party took power in Hungary in the final years of World War Two and began a short reign of terror in which thousands of Jews, previously spared from deportation, were killed in Budapest. But Heisler was young and careless, and Arrow Cross paramilitary members caught…
“You cannot say Kaddish.” Had those words had been said with sympathy, or at least respect for my loss, I wouldn’t be writing this. On my first morning in Budapest, October 7, the 24th day of Tishrei, I saw an old man standing in a doorway of the Talmud-Torah behind the Dohany Street Synagogue. I…
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