Funeral
An unveiling without a headstone? A shortage challenges grieving families
A shortage of everything from granite to chiselers means a long wait to mark a grave.
Yiddish Jokes with Ruth Kohn: “The Eulogy” (with English subtitles)
The anecdote, told at a talent show at the Yiddish Vokh in Copake, NY, reflects the irony characteristic of East European Jewish humor.
A Baal Teshuva, I chose this community. In Covid, they keep choosing to hurt my family.
I chose to live this life. And wasn’t I taught that pikuach nefesh, saving a life, supercedes every commandment?
Sitting shiva via Zoom, it turns out, has its upsides
It broke my heart being apart from my sister, and we missed out on all those baked goods, but everything else … was pretty awesome.
‘In all of the pain I am reminded why I became a rabbi in the first place’
Until this month, I have never recited vidui — the death-bed prayer — to a person over the phone, and I hope never to do so ever again.
My mother was a Holocaust survivor, but she was always more worried about my happiness.
“It will be harder for you to be in prison than it was for me to be in a concentration camp.”
Coronavirus-related deaths on the rise among the Jewish poor
“The upward trend of coronavirus deaths is already placing a burden on our annual budget,” said the head of the Hebrew Free Burial Society.
This Rabbi Would Prefer That You Compost His Body, Not Bury It
“I’m just trying to apply the principle of returning dust to dust,” he said.
She Entered What She Thought Was An Uber. Then She Was Found Dead.
Funeral services will be at Congregation Beth Chaim in Princeton, New Jersey, where the victim, Samantha Josephson, grew up.
An Etiquette Guide To Paying A Shiva Call
How to act, what to say, what to wear.