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 ...

BARAKHTY, Ukraine — He was a quiet man who attended temple regularly, Rabbi Moshe Azman told NBC News last week as he stood next to Zoreslav Zamojskij’s coffin. “I don’t understand why they killed ...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s private funeral service in the Supreme Court on Wednesday was presided over by Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. “Justice Ginsburg, ...

The COVID-19 crisis has caused long-held traditions to change, even those held deeply and faithfully across multiple generations. While other religious organizations have been able to transition ...

Plans for a major visitor center at the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem promise education and security, but opponents say ...

Dignity for the dead for members of the Jewish community is something Chesed Shel Emes, a grassroots network of volunteers, has worked toward since the 1980s. No matter the obstacle, they never say ...

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 ...

At stake is not just the health of chevra kadisha members, many of whom are older, but the sacred commandment to honor the dead. (JTA) — Sometime in March, the Chesed Shel Emes Jewish burial society ...

The funding will help three Jewish groups survey at least 3,000 cemeteries by 2021, those organizations said. (JTA) — The European Union has allocated $1.1 million toward mapping and preserving Jewish ...

At the height of the COVID-19 crisis in New York, Mordechai Meisels, a volunteer for the Jewish burial nonprofit Chesed Shel Emes, was receiving phone calls every few minutes that another person had ...

Two weeks ago, my friend — a pillar of our community, a father, a husband, and a true mensch — who was successfully fighting cancer, fell sick with the coronavirus. He died 24 hours later. Mourning ...