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.

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 ...

Sharon Shemesh, a member of New York’s Reform Chevra Kadisha burial society, prepares for a tahara to ritually cleanse the deceased’s body at Plaza Jewish Community Chapel. (Plaza Jewish Community ...

While doing her work with Rohatyn, which maintains four Jewish burial sites, Osborn regularly lives in Lviv. With her team, over 600 Jewish headstone fragments in Rohatyn have been recovered.

A new nondenominational Jewish burial society has replaced an Orthodox one at a Boston-area Jewish funeral home. Community Hevra Kadisha of Greater Boston, which launched this fall and is part of ...

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