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Responsa On Death, Burial, and Mourning - Reform Movement
Links to the CCAR responsa with references at the bottom. See complete index.
Subject | Special Interest | Title | Doc # | Year | Reference with Link |
Autopsy | Autopsy | 82 | 1925 | ARR 278-283 | |
Autopsy | Autopsy For Future Knowledge | 84 | 1986 | CARR 140-142 | |
Burial | Cremation | Burial Of Ashes In A Mausoleum | 102 | 1981 | CARR 163-164 |
Burial | Cremation | Burial of Cremation Ashes | RRT 112-115 | ||
Burial | Cremation | Burial of Cremation Ashes At Home | CoRR 169-172 | ||
Burial | Cremation | Burial of Mother's Ashes in Son's Grave | CuRR 145-149 | ||
Burial | Cremation | Scattering The Ashes Of The Dead | 192 | 1988 | NARR 306-307 |
Burial | Cremation | The Ashes Of A Couple In A Single Urn | 191 | 1990 | NARR 304-305 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Burial in a Christian cemetery | 105 | 1986 | CARR 166-167 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Burial Of A Non-Jewish Same-Sex Spouse | 20 | 1991-2 | TFN 5752.20 111-115 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Burial of a Prospective convert | 97 | 1981 | ARR 231-232 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Burial Of A Teenager Of Doubtful Descent | 96 | 1984 | CARR 156-157 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Burial of Non-Jew in Jewish Cemetery | CuRR 154-162 | ||
Burial | Non-Jewish | Burial of non-Jewish wives in Jewish cemeteries | 80-85 | 1914-36 | ARR 323-331 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Burial Of Prospective Convert | 97 | 1981 | ARR 321-322 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Doubtful Lineage And Burial | 98 | 1984 | CARR 158-160 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Non-Jewish Burial in a Jewish Cemetery | 99 | 1963 | ARR 335-341 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Non-Jewish Burials (Restricting Burial In The Congregation's Cemetery) | 97 | 1985 | CARR 161-162 |
Burial | Non-Jewish | Transfer of Body of Jew to Christian Cemetery | CuRR 162-165 | ||
Burial | Suicide | Burial Of A Suicide | 88 | 1959 | ARR 299-302 |
Burial | Burial at sea | 104 | 1986 | CARR 165-166 | |
Burial | Burial customs | 116 | 1923 | ARR 373-374 | |
Burial | Burial In His or Her City | CoRR 185-189 | |||
Burial | Burial In The Garden | 103 | 1977 | CARR 164-165 | |
Burial | Burial Of A Divorced Wife | 93 | 1982 | CARR 153-154 | |
Burial | Burial Of a Still-Born Child | TRR 123-125 | |||
Burial | Burial Of a Woman Married Twice | 94 | 1984 | CARR 154-155 | |
Burial | Burial Of A Young Child | 92 | 1983 | CARR 152-153 | |
Burial | Burial Of an Animal in a Jewish Cemetery | 2012-13 | 5773.5 | ||
Burial | Burial Of An Apostate | RRR 127-131 | |||
Burial | Burial Of An Apostate | 100 | 1987 | CARR 161 | |
Burial | Burial Of Convert | CoRR 240-244 | |||
Burial | Burial Of Enemies, Side By Side | 1960 | RR 136-140 | ||
Burial | Burial Of Human Organs | 170 | 1988 | NARR 281-282 | |
Burial | Burial Of Jerusalem Soil Into The Grave | 174 | 1989 | NARR 285 | |
Burial | Burial Of Jews In Section Of General Cemetery | 96 | 1957 | ARR 320-321 | |
Burial | Burial Of Men and Women, Side By Side | MRR 260-268 | |||
Burial | Burial Of Miscarriages, Stillborn Children And Infants | 106 | 1983 | CARR 167-168 | |
Burial | Burial Of Pet Animals | CuRR 165-169 | |||
Burial | Burial Of Second Wife | RRT 172-175 | |||
Burial | Burial on a Holy Day (Yom Tov) | 95 | 1921 | ARR 317-320 | |
Burial | Burial on Yom Tov After a Gravedigger's Strike | CoRR 163-164 | |||
Burial | Burial With A Baton | 171 | 1991 | NARR 282-283 | |
Burial | Burial With A Candelabra | 172 | 1988 | NARR 283-284 | |
Burial | Burial With A Kippah | 173 | 1989 | NARR 284 | |
Burial | Burial With First Or Second Husband | 95 | 1984 | CARR 155-156 | |
Burial | Delayed Burial | 1960 | RR 150-154 | ||
Burial | Extending The Privilege Of Burial From The Synagogue | 89 | 1984 | CARR 148-150 | |
Burial | Filling The Grave In Hot Weather | 178 | 1989 | NARR 289-290 | |
Burial | Keys in the Coffin | NRR 262-264 | |||
Burial | Mass Burial | CuRR 169-175 | |||
Burial | Prayers At Reinterment | 112 | 1985 | CARR 173-174 | |
Burial | Preparing for Burial on Shabbat | NRR 117-118 | |||
Burial | Some Duties of Burial | CoRR 189-193 | |||
Burial | Son's Presence Barred From Burial | RRT 282-283 | |||
Burial | Tattooing and Burial | TRR 119-121 | |||
Burial | Tattooing, Body-Piercing, And Jewish Tradition | 4 | 1998-9 | NYP 5759.4 | |
Burial | Temporary Burial of Fallen Israeli Soldiers | CoRR 205-212 | |||
Burial | Two Caskets In One Grave | 8 | 1990-1 | TFN 5751.8 117-118 | |
Burial | Two Coffins in One Grave | RRT 100-104 | |||
Burial | Two Coffins In One Grave (also NRR 97-99) | 107 | 1975 | ARR 355-358 | |
Burial | Unmarked Grave | 189 | 1987 | NARR 301-303 | |
Burial | Vertical Burial | 177 | 1991 | NARR 288-289 | |
Burial | Which Body To Bury First After a Gravedigger's Strike | CoRR 165-169 | |||
Casket | Cremation | Wife's Ashes in Husband's Coffin | MRR 237-240 | ||
Casket | Decorated Casket | 175 | NARR 286 | ||
Casket | Lights at the Head of the Coffin | CoRR 177-181 | |||
Casket | Open Casket | 91 | 1979 | CARR 151-152 | |
Casket | Plastic Casket | 176 | 1988 | NARR 287-288 | |
Casket | Wooden Nails and Handles For Coffin | RRR 153-155 | |||
Cemetery | Disinterment | Disinterment and mourning | TRR 094-097 | ||
Cemetery | Disinterment | Disinterment And Reburial | 111 | 1984 | CARR 172-173 |
Cemetery | Disinterment | Disinterment Due to Labor Strike | CoRR 160-162 | ||
Cemetery | Disinterment | Disinterment For Legal Evidence | 110 | 1982 | CARR 171-172 |
Cemetery | Disinterment | Disinterment From A Jewish To A Nondenominational Cemetery | 5 | 1995-6 | NYP 5756.5 |
Cemetery | Disinterment | Disinterment From Christian Cemetery | RRT 175-178 | ||
Cemetery | Disinterment | Question of Disinterment | 2006-07 | NYP 5767.3 | |
Cemetery | Disinterment | Removal Of Dead Body To Another Grave | 106 | 1922 | ARR 353-355 |
Cemetery | Non-Jewish | Convert Buried in Christian Cemetery | CoRR 151-154 | ||
Cemetery | Non-Jewish | Employment Of Non-Jews In a Cemetery | 105 | 1917 | ARR 353 |
Cemetery | Non-Jewish | Former Christian Cemetery To Be Bought and Used by Jewish Congregation | NRR 085-087 | ||
Cemetery | Non-Jewish | Non-Jews Buried in Cemetery | NRR 088-091 | ||
Cemetery | Non-Jewish | Transfer of Body of a Jew from Jewish cemetery for Reburial in Christian Cemetery | RRT 179-181 | ||
Cemetery | Added Section To A Cemetery | 199 | 1989 | NARR 317-319 | |
Cemetery | Alignment of Graves | CuRR 132-138 | |||
Cemetery | Building a Chapel On a Cemetery | 27 | 1979 | ARR 075-076 | |
Cemetery | Cemetery of Defunct Congregation | MRR 240-243 | |||
Cemetery | Cemetery Plantings | 204 | 1990 | NARR 327-328 | |
Cemetery | Cemetery Work on Rosh HaShanah | NRR 037-040 | |||
Cemetery | Choice Of A Cemetery | 101 | 1917 | ARR 348-349 | |
Cemetery | Communal Mausoleums | 1960 | RR 158-161 | ||
Cemetery | Congregation Using Cemetery Money | NRR 109-113 | |||
Cemetery | Control Of A Cemetery | 196 | 1988 | NARR 311-313 | |
Cemetery | Crypts as Family Burial Places | MRR 254-259 | |||
Cemetery | Depth of Graves | MRR 230-236 | |||
Cemetery | Direction of Graves in a Cemetery | 103 | 1923 | ARR 351-352 | |
Cemetery | Direction of Graves in a Cemetery | 104 | 1980 | ARR 352-353 | |
Cemetery | Encroaching Graves | TRR 065-067 | |||
Cemetery | Eternal Flame in Cemetery | MRR 249-253 | |||
Cemetery | First Grave in the Cemetery | CuRR 138-140 | |||
Cemetery | Jewish Section in General Cemetery | RRR 144-148 | |||
Cemetery | Jewish Section In General Cemetery | 198 | 1988 | NARR 315-317 | |
Cemetery | Location of a Tombstone | RRR 141-143 | |||
Cemetery | Naming Of A Cemetery | 197 | 1990 | NARR 313-315 | |
Cemetery | Perpetual Light on Graves | RRT 104-108 | |||
Cemetery | Plantings or Flowers on Graves | CoRR 284-286 | |||
Cemetery | Position of Body in Grave | CoRR 172-176 | |||
Cemetery | Preferred Burial Site | 102 | 1978 | ARR 349-350 | |
Cemetery | Responsibility For Cemeteries | 113 | 1986 | CARR 174-175 | |
Cemetery | Reuse Of A Grave | 190 | 1989 | NARR 303-304 | |
Cemetery | Reuse of Vacated Grave | 1960 | RR 132-135 | ||
Cemetery | Selling Part Of The Cemetery | RRT 128-135 | |||
Cemetery | Selling Portion Of A Cemetery | 200 | 1991 | NARR 319-322 | |
Cemetery | Synagogue Near Cemetery | RRR 041-047 | |||
Cemetery | Tombstone Mandatory or Not | NRR 147-151 | |||
Cemetery | Vandalized Cemetery | MRR 224-227 | |||
Cemetery | Vandalized Cemetery | 115 | 1974 | ARR 371-373 | |
Cemetery | Widower's Rights [To Prevent A Grave From Being Moved] | 88 | 1985 | CARR 147-148 | |
Cemetery | Yews In A Cemetery | 203 | 1988 | NARR 326 | |
Chevra Kadisha | Formation Of A Hevra Kadisha | 8 | 1993-4 | TFN 5754.8 087-090 | |
Chevra Kadisha | Not Using Synagogue's Chevra Kadisha | NRR 114-116 | |||
Cremation | Cremation | Cremation Ashes in Temple Cornerstone | RRT 167-169 | ||
Cremation | Cremation | Cremation From The Jewish Standpoint | 100 | 1891 | ARR 341-348 |
Cremation | Cremation | Family Disagreement Over Cremation | CoRR 228-231 | ||
Cremation | Cremation | When A Parent Requests Cremation | 2 | 2005-6 | NYP 5766.2 |
Death | Body Lost at Sea | 1960 | RR 147-150 | ||
Death | Caesarean Section on a Dead Woman | CoRR 212-216 | |||
Death | Caesarean Section on a Dead Woman | 1960 | RR 213-214 | ||
Death | Caesarean Section on a Dying Woman | 1960 | RR 214-217 | ||
Death | Caeserean Section on a Dead Woman | 80 | 1972 | ARR 274-276 | |
Death | Clothes and Shoes of the Dead | 1960 | RR 293-297 | ||
Death | Determination of Death | MRR 188-197 | |||
Death | Donation of Body to Science | MRR 278-280 | |||
Death | Freezing of Body For Later Burial | NRR 100-104 | |||
Death | Giving Away Shoes of the Dead | 1960 | RR 174-176 | ||
Death | Informing Daughter Of Her Mother's Death | 1 | 1992-3 | TFN 5753.1 199-200 | |
Death | Lost Body Later Found | NRR 142-146 | |||
Death | Ownership of the Body of the Dead | NRR 079-084 | |||
Death | Photographing the Dead | RRT 169-171 | |||
Death | Removing of the Dead on Shabbat | RRT 163-166 | |||
Dying | Choosing Which Patient To Save | 75 | 1968 | ARR 246-254 | |
Dying | Dying Patient Informed of Condition | 1960 | RR 122-125 | ||
Dying | Dying Patient Kept Alive | 1960 | RR 117-122 | ||
Dying | Dying Patient Requests No Funeral, No Mourning | RRR 110-113 | |||
Dying | Hospice | NRR 067-071 | |||
Dying | Hospital chapel | 29 | 1967 | ARR 078-079 | |
Dying | Hospital Patient Beyond Recovery | 1989-90 | TFN 5750.5 365-369 | ||
Dying | informing a Dying Patient | 158 | 1988 | NARR 262-263 | |
Dying | Naming a Dying Baby | 116 | 1991 | NARR 183-184 | |
Dying | Physician Keeping Truth From Patient | 74 | 1954 | ARR 245-246 | |
Dying | Relieving Pain of a Dying Patient | 76 | 1975 | ARR 253-257 | |
Dying | Relieving Pain of a Dying Patient | RRR 084-089 | |||
Dying | Status of Dying Infant | MRR 223-225 | |||
Dying | Testing Emergency Medical Procedures Without the Consent of the Patient | 1994-5 | TFN 5755.11 381-390 | ||
Funeral | Non-Jewish | Communal Memorial Services in Christian Cemetery | 1960 | RR 143-146 | |
Funeral | Non-Jewish | Funeral Of A Child Of A Mixed Marriage | 7 | 1990-1 | TFN 5751.7 267-269 |
Funeral | Non-Jewish | Funeral Of Non-Jewish Spouse Of A Member | 181 | 1989 | NARR 293-294 |
Funeral | Non-Jewish | Jewish Funeral For Non-Jewish Spouse | 99 | 1983 | CARR 160 |
Funeral | Non-Jewish | Masonic Service At Funeral | 91 | 1946 | ARR 308-309 |
Funeral | Non-Jewish | Rabbi officiating at a funeral of Jew in non-Jewish cemetery | 93 | 1947 | ARR 312-314 |
Funeral | Non-Jewish | Rabbi Officiating At Christian Scientist's Funeral | 94 | 1909 | ARR 314-317 |
Funeral | Non-Jewish | Rabbi participating in Christian Funeral | CuRR 175-178 | ||
Funeral | Suicide | A Eulogy For A Suicide | 90 | 1980 | ARR 306-307 |
Funeral | A Long-Delayed Funeral | 87 | 1909 | CARR 146-147 | |
Funeral | Congregational Charge for Funeral | 1975 | CoRR 193-196 | ||
Funeral | Congregational Charge for Funeral | RRR 138-141 | |||
Funeral | Covering the Casket | NRR 152-157 | |||
Funeral | Family Dispute Over Funeral Expenses | TRR 079-081 | |||
Funeral | Funeral For Those Lost At Sea | RRR 104-107 | |||
Funeral | Funeral From Temple | RRT 095-099 | |||
Funeral | Funeral Halted at Synagogue | RRT 182-186 | |||
Funeral | Funeral Interrupting a Wedding | TRR 103-107 | |||
Funeral | Funeral On Tu Bish'vat | 165 | 1989 | NARR 275-276 | |
Funeral | Funeral On Yom Hasho'ah | 166 | 1989 | NARR 276 | |
Funeral | Funeral Rites of Fraternal Orders | 92 | 1954 | ARR 309-312 | |
Funeral | Funeral Service in Synagogue Without Body | MRR 274-276 | |||
Funeral | Funeral Service in the Sanctuary | NYP 5769.5 | |||
Funeral | Funeral Service Without Family Members | MRR 276-277 | |||
Funeral | Funeral Services For Ex-members of Congregation | CoRR 200-204 | |||
Funeral | Funeral Without Rabbi Or Cantor | 90 | 1986 | CARR 150-151 | |
Funeral | Funeral/Burial at Night | RRT 158-162 | |||
Funeral | Halting Seven Times at the Funeral | TRR 044-046 | |||
Funeral | Omission Of Committal Service | RRT 148-153 | |||
Funeral | Omission Of Committal Service | 87 | 1976 | ARR 296-299 | |
Funeral | Post-funeral Eulogy | NRR 119-124 | |||
Funeral | Rented Hearse | RRT 122-128 | |||
Funeral | Request to Omit the Funeral Service | NYP 5770.6 | |||
Funeral | Washing Hands After Funeral | RRT 293-295 | |||
Funeral | Women as pall bearers | TRR 077-079 | |||
Funeral Director | Competeing Non-Jewish Undertaker | NRR 164-167 | |||
Funeral Director | Jewish Funeral Directors | 167 | 1990 | NARR 277-278 | |
Funeral Director | Undertaking Business | NRR 158-163 | |||
Kaddish | Non-Jewish | A Proselyte Reciting Kaddish for Deceased Parents | 123 | 1955 | ARR 387-390 |
Kaddish | Non-Jewish | Kaddish For A Unitarian Sister | 124 | 1957 | ARR 390-392 |
Kaddish | Non-Jewish | Kaddish For Adoptive And Biological Parents | 12 | 1992-3 | TFN 5753.12 201-207 |
Kaddish | Hiring Someone to Say Kaddish | CuRR 180-181 | |||
Kaddish | Incest And Parental Responsibilities | 123 | 1984 | CARR 185-186 | |
Kaddish | Kaddish | 118 | 1980 | ARR 377-379 | |
Kaddish | Kaddish For A Known Criminal | 146 | 1983 | CARR 218-219 | |
Kaddish | Kaddish For A Pet | 124 | 1984 | CARR 186-188 | |
Kaddish | Kaddish When Praying Alone | RRR 014-018 | |||
Kaddish | Kaddish and Distinctions Between the Dead | 122 | 1914 | ARR 386-387 | |
Kaddish | Length of Time For Recital of Kaddish | 121 | 1913 | ARR 383-385 | |
Kaddish | Omitting Kaddisha at the Burial | TRR 099-102 | |||
Kaddish | Reciting Kaddish For Convicted Criminal | 122 | 1981 | CARR 184-185 | |
Kaddish | Redemption Of Captives (Pidyon Shevuyim) | 5 | 1992-3 | TFN 5753.5 321-326 | |
Kaddish | Standing During Recital Of Kaddish | 120 | 1914 | ARR 380-383 | |
Kaddish | Titles On A Kaddish List | 119 | 1979 | ARR 379-380 | |
Mourning | Non-Jewish | Mourning For A Non-Jewish Spouse | 121 | 1986 | CARR 182-184 |
Mourning | Bar Mitzvah During the Mourning Period | 159 | 1984 | CARR 239-240 | |
Mourning | Comforting the Bereaved on Shabbat | NRR 130-132 | |||
Mourning | Covering of Mirrors | 1960 | RR 179-182 | ||
Mourning | Dates of Mourning in Different Time Zones | MRR 243-248 | |||
Mourning | Incense For Mourning | 180 | 1991 | NARR 292-293 | |
Mourning | Mourning customs | 117 | 1913 | ARR 374-376 | |
Mourning | Not Taking Dishes From House of Mourning | 1960 | RR 178-179 | ||
Mourning | Visiting the Mourners | NRR 133-138 | |||
Remembrance | Non-Jewish | Christian Relatives Memorialized | MRR 226-229 | ||
Remembrance | Non-Jewish | Gentile Names On A Yahrzeit List | 7 | 1994-5 | TFN 5755.7 049 |
Remembrance | Non-Jewish | Kaddish for Born Non-Jew | RRR 132-138 | ||
Remembrance | Non-Jewish | Yahrzeit For A Non-Jew | 207 | 1989 | NARR 331-332 |
Remembrance | Changing Names on Memorial Window | MRR 138-143 | |||
Remembrance | Dates of Death | RRR 148-149 | |||
Remembrance | Educational Value Of Yahrtzeit | 126 | 1914 | ARR 392-393 | |
Remembrance | Father's Hebrew Name Forgotten For Memorial | 1974 | CoRR 032-037 | ||
Remembrance | Hebrew Yahrzeit Dates | 209 | 1988 | NARR 333-334 | |
Remembrance | Kaddish for Apostate | RRR 132-138 | |||
Remembrance | Kaddish for First Wife | 1960 | RR 162-165 | ||
Remembrance | Leap Year Yahrzeit Observance | 127 | 1984 | CARR 190-191 | |
Remembrance | Living Will | 156 | 1989 | NARR 254-259 | |
Remembrance | May A Congregation Cease Reading The Names | 18 | 1992-3 | TFN 5753.18 043-048 | |
Remembrance | Memorial Candles on Yom Kippur | CuRR 014-018 | |||
Remembrance | Memorial Gifts | 145 | 1978 | CARR 217-218 | |
Remembrance | Memorial Lights At Home | CuRR 129-132 | |||
Remembrance | Memorial Lights/Tablets on Yom Kippur | 180 | 1979 | CARR 270 | |
Remembrance | Mourning For the Cremated | NRR 139-141 | |||
Remembrance | Moving Date Of Yahrzeit | 128 | 1984 | CARR 191 | |
Remembrance | Observance of Yahrtzeit, Not on the Exact Date | TRR 067-070 | |||
Remembrance | Observance Of Yahrzeit by a Widow Who Has Remarried | 128 | 1955 | ARR 395-396 | |
Remembrance | Reading of Memorial List on Shabbat | CuRR 178-180 | |||
Remembrance | Secular Date for Yahrzeit | 1960 | RR 168-173 | ||
Remembrance | Three Steps Backward For Kaddish | RRR 217-219 | |||
Remembrance | Titles in Memorial List | NRR 041-045 | |||
Remembrance | Transfer Of Memorial Plaque To Another Synagogue | 10 | 1990-1 | TFN 5751.10 017-018 | |
Remembrance | Two Yahrzeit Candles | 126 | 1985 | CARR 189-190 | |
Remembrance | Visiting Another Grave | 1960 | RR 176-177 | ||
Remembrance | Visiting Another Grave After Funeral | RRT 187-190 | |||
Remembrance | Visiting the Cemetery Before Thrity days | RRT 109-112 | |||
Remembrance | Walking on Graves | TRR 052-054 | |||
Remembrance | When to Visit the Cemetery | CoRR 232-235 | |||
Remembrance | Whether to Shorten Memorial List | MRR 024-031 | |||
Remembrance | Who Is To Light Yahrzeit Candle | 205 | 1989 | NARR 328-329 | |
Remembrance | Yahrtzeit For a Child | 1960 | RR 165-168 | ||
Remembrance | Yahrzeit | 127 | 1980 | ARR 393-395 | |
Remembrance | Yahrzeit Bonfire | 208 | 1989 | NARR 332-333 | |
Remembrance | Yahrzeit Date, Unknown, For A Holocaust Victim | 206 | 1990 | NARR 330-331 | |
Remembrance | Yahrzeit For A Brother | 125 | 1985 | CARR 188-189 | |
Remembrance | Yizkor During First Year | 1960 | RR 177-178 | ||
Shemot | Burial Of a Sefer Torah | 109 | 1985 | CARR 170-171 | |
Shemot | Burial Of Human Skin From Holocaust Victim | 107 | 1984 | CARR 169 | |
Shemot | Burial Of Old Bibles And Prayerbooks | 108 | 1978 | CARR 169-170 | |
Shemot | Burning of Old Prayer Books | 1960 | RR 071-074 | ||
Shemot | Ceremony For Burial Of Books | 194 | 1990 | NARR 309-310 | |
Shemot | Concern About Shredding Photocopied Services Containing the Name of God | NARR 231-233 | |||
Shemot | destroying | CuRR 029-033 | |||
Shemot | Proper Disposal Of A Worn Sefer Torah | 4 | 1996-7 | NYP 5757.4 | |
Shemot | Proper Disposal of Religious Texts | 2001-02 | 5762.1 | ||
Shemot | Proper Disposal Of Religious Texts | 2001-2 | NYP 5762.1 | ||
Shiv'ah | Non-Jewish | Gentiles And Jewish Mourning Rites | 4 | 1999-2000 | NYP 5760.4 |
Shiv'ah | Hol HaMo'ed Sukkot and Pessah | CuRR 224-225 | |||
Shiv'ah | Shiv'ah and Quarreling Family | RRT 136-142 | |||
Shiv'ah | Shivah for a Delayed Funeral | 119 | 1984 | CARR 180-181 | |
Shiv'ah | Shiv'ah For Apostate | CuRR 181-183 | |||
Shiv'ah | Shiv'ah In Jerusalem | NRR 125-129 | |||
Soul | Genetic Engineering | 20 | 1978 | CARR 032-034 | |
Suicide | Suicide | Confidentiality and Threatened Suicide | 1989-90 | TFN 5750.3 283-288 | |
Suicide | Suicide | Dissuading a Would-be Suicide | CoRR 253-259 | ||
Suicide | Suicide | Huntington's Disease and Suicide | 81 | 1983 | CARR 135-136 |
Tahara | Body Parts Mixed Before Burial | TRR 084-087 | |||
Tahara | Brit Milah for Dead Child | 1960 | RR 096-099 | ||
Tahara | Burial in Israel Without Talit | NRR 105-108 | |||
Tahara | Extra Shroud For Kohein | CoRR 276-278 | |||
Tahara | Linen Shrouds Or A Garment | 168 | 1989 | NARR 278-279 | |
Tahara | Purification of Dead Body and Dressing in Shroud Done on Shabbat | 1960 | RR 026-029 | ||
Tahara | Refusing to Handle Infectious Body | CoRR 181-184 | |||
Tahara | Shoes for the Dead | RRR 149-153 | |||
Tahara | Taharah and AIDS | 169 | 1988 | NARR 279-281 | |
Tahara | Tallit for the dead and cremation | MRR 269-274 | |||
Tombstone | Cremation | A Tombstone For Scattered Ashes | 193 | 1990 | NARR 307-309 |
Tombstone | Argument Over A Tombstone | 7 | 1995-6 | NYP 5756.7 | |
Tombstone | Colored Tombstone | 184 | 1990 | NARR 297 | |
Tombstone | Exchanging Of A Tombstone | 113 | 1970 | ARR 365-367 | |
Tombstone | Exchanging of a Tombstone - See ARR 365-367 | CoRR 236-239 | |||
Tombstone | Fallen Gravestones | 115 | 1985 | CARR 176-177 | |
Tombstone | Inscription Of Widow's Name On First Husband's Tombstone | 188 | 1988 | NARR 300-301 | |
Tombstone | Insignia On A Tombstone | 110 | 1980 | ARR 360-361 | |
Tombstone | Isaiah Verse On A Tombstone | 187 | 1989 | NARR 299-300 | |
Tombstone | Lapse Of Time Before Setting A Tombstone | 108 | 1932 | ARR 358-359 | |
Tombstone | Location Of A Tombstone | 182 | 1990 | NARR 294-295 | |
Tombstone | Metal Tombstone | 185 | 1989 | NARR 298 | |
Tombstone | Mother's Name On Son's Tombstone | 114 | 1976 | ARR 367-371 | |
Tombstone | Name Missing on Tombstone | RRR 107-109 | |||
Tombstone | Name Of The Deceased On Two Tombstones | 120 | 1986 | CARR 181-182 | |
Tombstone | Names On A Tombstone | 116 | 1985 | CARR 177-178 | |
Tombstone | Pebble on Tombstone | RRT 291-293 | |||
Tombstone | QR Codes Embedded In Tombstones | 2012-13 | 5773.4 | ||
Tombstone | Setting Of A Tombstone | 114 | 1979 | CARR 175-176 | |
Tombstone | Sh'ma As A Tombstone Inscription | 117 | 1983 | CARR 178 | |
Tombstone | The Setting Of A Tombstone | 109 | 1979 | ARR 359-360 | |
Tombstone | Tombstone For Polish Family Graves | 202 | 1990 | NARR 325 | |
Tombstone | Tombstone in absence of body (cenotaph) | 112 | 1964 | ARR 362-365 | |
Tombstone | Tombstone with Christian Markings | 118 | 1988 | CARR 179-180 | |
Tombstone | Uniformity of Tombstone | 1960 | RR 154-157 | ||
Tombstone | Unmarked Tombstone | 186 | 1989 | NARR 298-299 | |
Tombstone | When to Set Tombstone | TRR 117-119 | |||
Tombstone | Wooden Tombstone | 183 | 1990 | NARR 296 | |
Transplant | Banks For Human Organs | 78 | 1986 | CARR 128-132 | |
Transplant | Bequeathing Parts of Body | CoRR 216-223 | |||
Transplant | Donation of Body to Science | 1960 | RR 130-131 | ||
Transplant | Hastening The Death Of A Potential Organ Donor | 3 | 2002-3 | NYP 5763.3 | |
Transplant | Live Liver Transplantation | 2002-3 | NYP 5763.2 | ||
Transplant | Selling a Human Kidney for Transplant | 79 | 1986 | CARR 132-133 | |
Transplant | Selling Human Blood for Medical Purposes | 80 | 1985 | CARR 133-135 | |
Transplant | Surgical Transplants | 86 | 1968 | ARR 291-296 | |
Transplant | The Use of the Cornea of the Dead | 85 | 1956 | ARR 288-291 | |
Transplant | Transplantation of Kidneys | NRR 062-066 | |||
Transplant | Transplanting the Eyes of Deceased Persons | 84 | 1953 | ARR 287-288 | |
Transplant | Using The Blood Of The Dead | 83 | 1967 | ARR 284-287 |
ARR | American Reform Responsa | A compendium of the responsa of the CCAR Responsa Committee as printed in the yearbooks of the CCAR, 1890-1982, including several "private" responsa written by Rabbi Jacob. | linked | 1983 | Walter Jacob, ed |
CARR | Contemporary American Reform Responsa | A follow-up to ARR | linked | 1987 | Walter Jacob, ed. |
RR | Reform Responsa | not linked | 1960 | Solomon Freehof | |
RRR | Recent Reform Responsa | not linked | 1963 | Solomon Freehof | |
CuRR | Current Reform Responsa | not linked | 1969 | Solomon Freehof | |
MRR | Modern Reform Responsa | not linked | 1971 | Solomon Freehof | |
CoRR | Contemporary Reform Responsa | not linked | 1974 | Solomon Freehof | |
RRT | Reform Responsa for our Time | not linked | 1977 | Solomon Freehof | |
NRR | New Reform Responsa | not linked | 1980 | Solomon Freehof | |
TRR | Today's Reform Responsa | not linked | 1990 | Solomon Freehof | |
NARR | New American Reform Responsa | linked | 1992 | Walter Jacob | |
TFN | Teshuvot for the 1990's | linked | 1997 | W. Gunther Plaut and Mark Washofsky | |
HAL | HAL - Halakhah | not linked | Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah | ||
JRJ | Journal of Reform Judaism | (see CCARJ) | not linked | ||
CCARJ | CCARJ - CCAR Journal (publication of the CCAR since 1953 | Was titled Journal of Reform Judaism [or JRJ] from Spring 1978 to Spring 1991. | not linked | ||
NYP | Not Yet Printed | responsa published by the Responsa Committee, but not yet in bound collections | linked |
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