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Culture At the edge of America, six Jewish graves endure
Long before Alaska had synagogues or an organized Jewish community, a small cemetery in Fairbanks preserved traces of frontier Jewish life one burial at a time
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Culture An Indiana town had no Jewish cemetery. When its mayor died, it built one
Aurora had no Jewish cemetery in 1871. After Marcus Levy’s death, residents refused to send him away — and set out to consecrate ground and raise a monument
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Culture America’s oldest synagogue closed. Then an unlikely group tended its cemetery.
For decades after its congregation faded, one of America’s oldest Jewish cemeteries endured — preserved by both Christians and Jews
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News An Arizona cemetery now requires mourners to leave before burial. A rabbi plans to sue.
Jewish families say a Scottsdale cemetery’s new policy requiring loved ones to leave before a casket is lowered disrupts a core burial ritual
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Culture Why a forgotten teacher’s grave became a Jewish pilgrimage site
Long after his death, the grave of Rabbi Yechiel Meir Burgeman has become a site of prayer and hope
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Culture The Jewish women who kept Confederate graves from disappearing
In Virginia, they cared for the graves of Jewish Confederate soldiers — turning burial, not ideology, into an act of obligation and memory
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Culture Why small town Jews buried their dead in big cities — and what those journeys reveal today
Funeral trains linked isolated Jews to larger communities, revealing how belonging could stretch across counties, rail lines, and faiths
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Culture How one man’s burial brought Jews and Christians together — and what it still teaches 120 years later
The 1915 service for Harris Cohn revealed something timeless about American religion: that devotion, in any language, can be shared
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