Preparing Jewish bodies for burial, an artist finds inspiration: Karen Benioff Friedman, a Bay Area painter, signed up to join her synagogue’s new chevra kadisha — a group that prepares the Jewish ...

HAMPTON, Va. — At the Jewish Cemetery of the Virginia Peninsula, the past, present and future are all intertwined. "We have to honor our responsibility to make a proper place for the burial of Jewish ...

The names on those headstones aren’t just Jewish history. They’re Virginia Peninsula history, Jewish Peninsula’s Eric Maurer ...

At this time of the year, the portions we read from the Torah center on the uniqueness of the Israelites by emphasizing God’s hopes for them and reiterating the specific practices they have been ...

WARSAW (JTA) — In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. Some gravestones stand tall and pristine. But ...