I write these words after far too many tears shed together with bereaved families-families placed in painful and often avoidable situations simply because the right conversations did not happen ...

Linda Fitzerman did not want her children making burial decisions through tears. For years, she and her husband, Todd Boone ...

The first time I touched a dead body was in a sanitized room inside a Dallas funeral home. I was stationed next to Ana’s toenails, with a small toothpick and a Q-tip. While firmly holding onto her ...

Moskowitz, a Broward/Palm Beach county Democrat, was joined by U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Miami-Dade/Collier county Republican, in citing three issues — wait times, the length of time allowed for ...

PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA) — Tahara, the act of washing and purifying the deceased, is paramount to Jewish burial. So when the pandemic descended on the United States in March ...

“Once there is retrieval of the body they can proceed to go on the mourner’s path,” said one rabbi who ran a support group for families of 9/11 victims. (JTA) — Among Rabbi Mayer Berger’s first ...

When driving on I-95 in Broward County, just south of the Atlantic Boulevard exit, you pass a shocking slogan painted on the side of a building: “Don’t make an ash of yourself. Be buried as a Jew.” ...

PETOSKEY, Michigan — The cemetery of this northern resort community, with a view of the glimmering waters of Little Traverse Bay, has a small Jewish section. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, the ...

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Baskind was buried under a Star of David with full military honors at the Normandy American Cemetery in France this week. Julien Nguyen-Kim / American Battle Monuments Commission An American Jewish ...