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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

“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 ...

A Jewish woman, Leah, has tragically passed away in upstate NY after she drowned saving her son. Please help her have a ...

After suspending the traditional practice of Taharah during the pandemic, New Community Chevra Kadisha is finding a way to reclaim ritual on the other side. PITTSBURGH (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via ...