Dear Bintel, I have been volunteering with a local synagogue’s Chevra Kadisha — the burial society — since 2016. I love performing taharot; it’s my favorite Jewish ritual. It is rare to be in a space ...

This is the little-known story of a challenging day in the first year of our Cleveland Jewish community. It’s an old tale, ...

Jewish community leaders are interested in a nonprofit that would oversee both dignified burial and cemetery restoration, as well as maintenance efforts. | Courtesy of Rich Blumberg A simple, ...

Discussions around the creation of the burial society helped spark growing interest among Reform Jews in Jewish ritual burial and other end-of-life issues.

With the bodies of hostages set to return home, Jewish law raises complex questions—when to mourn, how to bury, and what to do when the remains are incomplete.

RIO DE JANEIRO — An Israeli Jewish man buried seven years ago in a non-Jewish cemetery in Brazil was given a proper Jewish burial after his body was found in a garbage bag. The discovery was ...

Meet the man helping conserve the graves at a historic Jewish cemetery in Pennsylvania GLADWYNE, Pa. (CBS) — The Har Hasetim in Gladwyne was founded by several Jewish burial societies in the ...

In her book The Ferryman, Katia Ariel reveals the story of Ephraim Finch, ‘community ferryman’ of Jewish souls.

The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art wasn’t the first museum to bury remains of Holocaust victims in its collection.

A Jewish Soldier Found in a German Mass Grave Has Been Reburied in an American Cemetery Nathan Baskind received a Jewish burial exactly 80 years after his death in ...

News Meet the Jewish funeral cats of Sacramento Jewish mourning rituals offer a deeply rooted structure to guide a grieving family. And sometimes there’s a cat, too ...

A Russian missile struck the Jewish cemetery in the city of Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region, southeastern Ukraine, setting off ...