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From the standpoint of Judaism, it is a painful break from the sanctity of the human body and from the eternal significance ...

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 ...

In June 1866, just over a year after the Civil War ended, young Jewish men in Richmond, Virginia, removed their coats and set to work among the graves of their fallen comrades. Some were “frail of ...

Judaism offers rules and guidance about how to bury the dead, how to mourn and how to support families through their grief.When Jews talk about a person who has died, they commonly use the phrase: ...

A retired merchant in his nineties holds the keys to the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe - and to centuries of Jewish history in Greece. As a child in the city of Chalkida, I used to climb the huge ...