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Teshuvot (Responsa) On Death, Burial, and Mourning - Conservative Movement
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Selected Teshuvot related to death, burial, and mourningfrom the CJLS (Committee on Jewish Law and Standards) of the Rabbinical Assembly andthe Va'ad Halakhah (Law Committee) of the Rabbinical Assembly of Israel (shown below as "Masorti"). |
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Source | Subject | Title with Link | Reference | Year | Author |
CJLS | Organ Donation | Organ Donation After Cardiac Death | YD 370:1 | 2010 | Leonard Sharzer |
CJLS | Organ Donation | Ad Heikhan Hu Bodek? -- Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death |
YD 370:1 |
2004 |
Daniel S. Nevins |
CJLS | Organ Donation | Organ Donation |
YD 336. |
1999 | Joel Roth |
CJLS | Organ Donation | Organ and Tissue Donation Card |
YD 336 |
1996 | Joseph Prouser |
CJLS | Organ Donation | Chesed or Chiuv: The Obligation to Preserve Life and the Question of Post-Mortem Organ Donations |
YD 336 |
1995 | Joseph H. Prouser |
Masorti | Organ Donation | The Donation of Bodies to Medical Schools |
YD 349:1-2; 357:1 |
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Gilah Dror |
Masorti | Organ Donation | Organ Transplants and Donor Cards |
YD 349:1-2; 357:1 |
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David Golinkin |
CJLS | Suicide | Suicide |
YD 345:2 |
2005 | Kassel Abelson |
CJLS | Suicide | Assisted Suicide |
YD 345 |
1997a |
Elliot N. Dorff |
CJLS | Suicide | Statement on Assisted Suicide |
YD 345 |
1997b |
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CJLS | Tahara | I Shall Sprinkle Pure Water Upon You and You Shall Be Purified: A Question of Taharah |
YD 352:3 |
1998 |
Ben Zion Bergman |
Masorti | Tahara | The Tohorah Ritual |
YD 352:4 |
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David Golinkin |
Masorti | Tahara | Tohorah for those who Died of AIDS |
YD 352:4. |
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Simchah Roth |
Masorti | Funeral | The Participation of Women in Funerals |
YD 359 |
1986-7 |
David Golinkin |
CJLS | Funeral | A Statement on Funerals in the Synagogue |
YD 353:3 |
1983 |
Ben Zion Bokser |
CJLS | Cremation | Cremation in the Jewish Tradition |
YD 348 |
1986 |
Morris Shapiro |
CJLS | Burial of Non-Jews | Burial of Non-Jewish Spouse and Children | YD 367:1 | 2010 | Kassel Abelson and Loel Weiss |
CJLS | Burial of Non-Jews | Bury Him, Yes, Bury Him - A Concurring Opinion to Paul Plotkin's "Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity" |
YD 345:5 |
1998 |
Myron S. Geller |
CJLS | Burial of Non-Jews | Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity |
YD 345:5 |
1994 |
Paul Plotkin |
CJLS | Burial of Non-Jews | Peaceful Paths: Burial of Non-Jews in a Jewish Cemetery Following a Common Disaster |
YD 367:1 |
1994 |
Myron S. Geller |
CJLS | Burial | A Matter of Grave Concern: A Question of Mixed Burial |
YD 367:1 |
1991 |
Ben Zion Bergman |
Masorti | Burial | The Burial of Non-Jews in a Jewish Cemetery |
YD 367:1 |
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David Golinkin |
Masorti | Burial | Burial in a Coffin in Eretz Yisrael |
YD 362:1 |
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Pesach Schindler |
Masorti | Burial | Engraving on a Gravestone a Name Which Was Added During an Illness |
YD 335:10 |
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David Golinkin |
CJLS | Disinterment | Exhuming the Dead |
YD 363 |
1996 |
Myron S. Geller |
CJLS | Mausoleum | May a Mausoleum Be Used for Jewish Burial? |
YD 362:1 |
1983 |
Morris Feldman |
CJLS | Mausoleum | The Use of Mausoleums for Jewish Burial |
YD 362:1 |
1983 |
David H. Lincoln |
Masorti | Mausoleum | Layered Burial and Burial in Mausolea |
YD 362:1 |
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David Golinkin |
CJLS | Mourning | Saying Kaddish for Twelve Months, A Valid Alternative |
YD 376:4 |
2008 | Richard Plavin and Mayer Rabinowitz |
CJLS | Mourning | Welcoming Mourners on Shabbat |
YD 400:1 |
2000 |
Baruch Frydman-Kohl |
CJLS | Mourning | Converts Mourning the Death of Close Relatives |
YD 374:5 |
1998 |
Joel Rembaum |
Masorti | Mourning | Women and the Mourners' Kaddish |
YD 376:4 |
5749 |
David Golinkin |
CJLS | Missing Persons | Ritual of Mourning When a Body is Not Recovered |
YD 375:7 |
2001 |
Kassel Abelson and Mayer Rabinowitz |
CJLS | Missing Persons | On the Status of Missing Persons |
YD 397 |
1987 |
Isidoro Aizenberg |
CJLS | Pregnancy Loss | What Should Jewish Practice Be Following a Stillbirth? |
YD 340:30 |
1996a |
Stephanie Dickstein |
CJLS | Pregnancy Loss | What's In a Name?: A Concurrence and Dissent on the Ritual Practice Following a Stillbirth |
YD 340:30 |
1996b |
Ben Zion Bergman |
CJLS | Pregnancy Loss | What Should Be Jewish Practice Following the Death of an Infant Who Lives Less Than Thirty One Days? |
YD 374:8 |
1992a |
Stephanie Dickstein |
CJLS | Pregnancy Loss | Kiyyam Li: A Dissenting Concurrence |
YD 374:8 |
1992b |
Avram Israel Reisner |
CJLS | Pregnancy Loss | Response to Miscarriage |
YD 340:30 |
1991a |
Debra Reed Blank |
CJLS | Pregnancy Loss | Response to Miscarriage: An Alternate View |
YD 340:30 |
1991b |
Amy Eilberg |
CJLS | Pregnancy Loss | Mourning for a Newborn |
YD 374:8 |
1987 |
Isidoro Aizenberg |
CJLS | Pregnancy Loss | Treatment of the Loss of a Fetus Through Miscarriage |
YD 340:30 |
1987 |
Isidoro Aizenberg |
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