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Why are Jews traditionally buried in a Tallis? By Isaac Pollak

Rabbi Joe Blair June 14, 2017

Paris Jew’s reburial in Israel ends legal battle

Jewish Journal October 30, 2013

A Jewish celebrity art dealer who died in 1870 in France was reburied in Israel after his body was exhumed from his Paris grave due to property laws.

Conn. congregation, member settle lawsuit over non-Jewish burial

Jewish Journal May 17, 2012

A Jewish woman suing her congregation over the burial of a non-Jewish black woman in its cemetery has settled her lawsuit.

Kids Learn Burial Rites From Barney

Naomi Glauberman May 4, 2006

Michael Sachs remembers that he had initially thought that a program on death wasn\’t really important for people in their 40s.

\”But, in fact,\” he now says, \”I learned things I assumed I wouldn\’t need to think about for many years. I thought the program dealt with potentially distressing material in a nonthreatening, matter-of-fact fashion,\” he said.

Obituaries

Jewish Journal March 9, 2006

Rabbi Zalman Ury, Day School System Leader, Dies at 92\nRabbi Zalman Ury, who dedicated more than 50 years to building Jewish education in Los Angeles and was rabbi emeritis at Young Israel of Beverly Hills, died last month at the age of 92.