Before the coronavirus pandemic, Deborah Drillman, 54, was one of 55 women volunteering with the Chevra Kadisha of Queens and Long Island, an organization that prepares deceased people for burial ...
As a literary device, the chevra kadisha, or burial society, has little precedent. The words mean, literally, holy society. The chevra kadisha is the group of people that performs, among other duties, ...
“This is a universal thing that everybody goes through,” Rabbi Stan Levy emphasized during the 10th North American Chevra Kadisha and Jewish Cemetery Conference, a three-day event last month at ...
When members of the year-old Reform Communal Chevra Kadisha of New York complete their work preparing a Jewish body for burial, they take a few minutes to stand together around the closed coffin.
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Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. I first joined a Jewish burial society, ...
The facility where bodies of soldiers are housed while in the identification process, at the IDF SHURA base in Ramla. (IDF Spokesman’s Office) A person who has passed away can never personally repay ...
Malkiel “Kiki” Nadel traded a lucrative job in the financial field to head The Chevra, a nonprofit group in Philadelphia whose mission is to bring young professionals and grad students together to ...
Its spelling has befuddled many. The range includes a dozen variations, including “Chevra Teelem,” “Hevera Tillem” and “Chevra Thelim.” The proper name of the Jewish Museum and Cultural Center, a ...
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 ...