The train that carried John Friday’s body from Athens, Ohio, in October 1886, was headed three hours west to Cincinnati for ...

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 ...

An agreement between a nearby Jewish school of law and the state will help families identify the graves of loved ones. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — While researching his family tree, Brian Madigan ...

Like all relatives and friends who come to Mount Richmond Cemetery in Staten Island during the coronavirus pandemic for the burial of a loved one or friend, Michael Tokar was asked to wait. He sat in ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BKB Funeral Chapel transitions as veteran director Stuart Berkowitz mentors four new directors, aiming to preserve its century-long tradition of compassionate Jewish service.

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 ...