BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — The night after the first Jewish coronavirus victim in Argentina was cremated against the wishes of his family, who wanted him to receive a full Jewish burial, the ...

A leading Orthodox rabbi has ruled that Jewish communities in Europe should embrace cremation if their governments require it — and consider it a posthumous “mitzvah,” or fulfillment of a commandment, ...

A new Jewish cemetery aims to discourage cremation, an increasingly popular option among Jews that is frowned on by religious authorities, by offering traditional burial at what organizers say is a ...

With cremation on the rise and more Jewish cemeteries accepting ashes for burial, a national organization of Jewish burial societies is trying to promote traditional in-ground burial among liberal ...

At first glance, the two sides of the Jewish cremation dilemma seem clear. Opponents deplore what they see as a violation of Jewish law, desecration of the body and callous indifference to the memory ...

Many Jews are asking if cremation is an acceptable alternate to in-ground burial. Isn't cremation simple and inexpensive? Isn't cremation quick and the least burden on my children? Jewish educators ...

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Despite protests from a Jewish community near Buenos Aires, the first Jewish victim of the coronavirus in Argentina was cremated by local authorities, causing controversy and ...

Growing up in post WW II Brooklyn, one never heard of a Jew being cremated. The Torah related numerous stories of the Patriarchs burying their loved ones and throughout the Diaspora, there are Jewish ...

In ancient times, the nihilistic worldview of pagans regarded this physical world as both beginning and end. For them, death was an excruciating reminder of the futility of human existence. They ...

Inter-continental lobbying and the stubborn will of a family member prevented the cremation of a Jewish woman's body in Florida and led to her burial in Israel. The deceased, Frida Wiesel, passed away ...

BUENOS AIRES — Despite protests from a Jewish community near Buenos Aires, the first Jewish victim of the coronavirus in Argentina has been cremated by local authorities, causing controversy and ...

Emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Nepal are fighting against the clock to prevent the cremation of a Jewish woman killed in a tragic bus accident Monday. The woman, a 32 year-old ...