Mom’s final resting places — a cremation story
Ellie Kahn, Oral Historian
August 7, 2008
If you are offended either by the idea of cremation or humor about the dead, you may want to stop reading. It\’s OK.
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An incomplete guide to Jewish funerals and burial
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