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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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BINTEL BRIEF Can an interfaith couple be buried together in a Jewish cemetery?
Bintel says it can be done — but it depends on who’s in charge of the rules
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Culture What I learned about life from preparing the dead
As a convert, I joined a chevra kadisha. It taught me that Jewish rituals aren’t only about death — they’re about how we live, remember, and honor one another
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