A simple, traditional Jewish funeral costs about $7,500-8,500, according to Joseph Levine & Sons Funeral Home partner Brian Levine. That’s with a plain, wooden casket and no limousines, flowers or ...

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 ...

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. When members of the year-old Reform Communal ...

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 ...

Not all funerals are the same, even within Judaism. Here are the Jewish funeral etiquette guidelines you need to know to pay your respects properly. I’ve long been fascinated by the differences in ...

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Preparing Jewish bodies for burial, an artist finds inspiration: Karen Benioff Friedman, a Bay Area painter, signed up to join her synagogue’s new chevra kadisha — a group that prepares the Jewish ...

When Robin Meyerson picks up her phone these days, she never knows what kind of plea for help she will hear on the other end.

NEW YORK — Born in Austria, Tillie Kupferschmidt, 17, had lived in the United States for all of three years before perishing in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 1911. Two days later, ...