Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is said in the Jewish religion, “life is a journey and death a destination." It’s true ...

Baskind was buried under a Star of David with full military honors at the Normandy American Cemetery in France this week. Julien Nguyen-Kim / American Battle Monuments Commission An American Jewish ...

A 13-year-old boy was buried in a special section in Madrid’s Jewish cemetery because he had a Conservative conversion. Gai Ben-David died last weekend after suffering for years from brain cancer. He ...

Growing up, Samantha Baskind’s father would sometimes mention his “Uncle Nate,” who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. He called Nate “a great Jewish American war hero,” often just around ...

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At Jewish funerals, the final act is often the simplest: the casket is lowered into the earth, mourners take turns with a shovel, and the grave slowly fills. It is a moment many rabbis describe as the ...

GLADWYNE, Pa. (CBS) — The Har Hasetim in Gladwyne was founded by several Jewish burial societies in the 1890s and had its last burial in 1945. Now, people are working to conserve the cemetery and ...

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.