I write these words after far too many tears shed together with bereaved families-families placed in painful and often avoidable situations simply because the right conversations did not happen ...

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 ...

Jewish law is unequivocal: the dead must be buried in the earth, and cremation is not permitted.

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.

The question of cremation versus burial in Judaism is not merely a matter of tradition or preference; it reflects a deeply ...

I write these words after far too many tears have been shed together with bereaved families—families placed in painful and often avoidable situations simply because the right conversations did not ...