Black text = links to be completed soon! Jewish Death Practices: Phases of Death Observance Spiritual Aspects Caskets |
Chevra Kadisha: Tahara Manuals and Procedures |
|
Learning & Resources:
|
Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington - Newspaper Articles and Speeches
in
The Cost of a Dignified Burial | Melissa Gerr & Marc Shapiro | Baltimore Jewish Times | June 5, 2015 |
Will purchase of funeral homes affect funeral costs? | Suzanne Pollak | Washington Jewish Week | Jan 22, 2014 |
Effort to keep funeral prices low suffers setback | Suzanne Pollak | Washington Jewish Week | Dec 31, 2013 |
Fighting to the death | Suzanne Pollak | Washington Jewish Week | Nov 6, 2013 |
Van Hollen joins battle against funeral home merger | Suzanne Pollak | Washington Jewish Week | Jul 17, 2013 |
Funeral deal in doubt | Suzanne Pollak | Washington Jewish Week | Jun 26, 2013 |
|
The Cemetery Chronicles |
Oct 7, 2010 |
|
Richard Greenberg |
Washington Jewish Week | May 19, 2010 | |
The end-of-life discount Grave marker maker slashes prices by one-third |
Richard Greenberg | Washington Jewish Week | May 12, 2010 |
The State of Church-state - JCRC lobbies to keep Va.'s sacred-secular divide | Richard Greenberg | Washington Jewish Week | Apr 29, 2010 |
Trouble on the ground - Allegation of desecrations raises funeral home questions | Adam Kredo | Washington Jewish Week | Apr 8, 2009 |
Staying grounded - The final choice: Burial vs. cremation | Richard Greenberg | Washington Jewish Week | June 25, 2009 |
The final passage | Richard Greenberg | Washington Jewish Week | Jan 3, 2008 |
A grave decision Should Jewish vets opt for a military plot? | Aaron Leibel | Washington Jewish Week | Nov 14, 2007 |
D.C. shul recalls - AIDS crisis left mark | Eric Fingerhut | Washington Jewish Week | July 5, 2006 |
Dignity until end - Burial societies' members perform 'the last mitzvah' Events to spotlight chevra kadisha work |
Paula Amann | Washington Jewish Week | Feb 22, 2006 |
Honor and Comfort - D.C. - based group hopes to prevent cemetery misconduct | Eric Fingerhut | Washington Jewish Week | 2002 |
Tracing Your Family Roots 195 - Jewish Funeral Practices | Tracing Your Family Roots | ~2000 | |
Merry Madway Eisenstadt | Washington Jewish Week | August 3, 2000 | |
Washington Jewish Week | August 3, 2000 | ||
Merry Madway Eisenstadt | Washington Jewish Week | August 3, 2000 | |
History and Background of Washington Area Orthodox Chevra Kadisha | Morris Wisotsky and Reverend Ernie Yehuda Friedman | May 5, 1999 | |
A Community Reasserts Religious Values In Funeral Ritual | Caryle Murphy | Washington Post | February 15, 1998 |
Funerals are big business |
Merry Madway Eisenstadt | Washington Jewish Week | February 1-9, 1998 |
Funerals Without the Frills; Jewish Mortician Offers Discount Alternative | Rick Greenberg | Washington Post | April 4, 1994 |
Bob Hausman | November 1989 | ||
March 31, 1985 | |||
Harris Weinstein | United Synagogue Convention | November 16, 1977 | |
Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington records, 1975-1991 | The George Washington University, The Gelman Library, Special Collections Research Center | 1975-1991 |
anticipatory grief
antitrust
Applbaum
aron
bereavement
books
burial
burial society
casket
cemetery
chevra kadisha
children
comfort
conferences
cremation
death
doula
drash
Dying Jewishly
education
ELI
end of life
Epstein
ethics
flowers
funeral
funeral contract
funeral practices
Gamliel
geniza
green
Greenhough
grief
guarding
Hines Rinaldi
honor
infection
interment
Jefferson
Jewish way
JFPCGW
leadership
library
low cost
manuals
Melaveh
Menorah Gardens
mitzvot
monopoly
moravia
mourning
national public radio
non-profit funeral home
NPR
onen
organ donation
palliative
Plaza
practices
pre-need
pre-planning
preplanning
rabbi
reform
responsa
riemer
Rituals
schulweis
shemira
shiva
shmira
shomer
stones
suicide
tachrichim
Tahara
tattoo
teaching aides
traditions
training
unveiling
watching
yahrzeit