For over a century the two Beth Yeshurun cemeteries in Houston have been a harbor for generations of Jewish families to pray, ...

The court ruled that the woman was not competent to make decisions regarding her body or inheritance, invalidating the will and ordering that her remains be transported to Israel for burial.

A French court has ruled that the request of French-Jewish writer Paul-Loup Sulitzer to be buried in a Jewish burial must be respected, despite the objection of his eldest daughter, who planned to ...

The bones found inside the ossuaries will be turned over to the Ministry of Religious Affairs for burial, according to the authority. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.

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. This is Warsaw’s main Jewish ...

Jewish Burial Society, a non-profit community-service organization, helps families arrange traditional Jewish funerals at a reasonable price. Revenues in excess of expenses are donated to Jewish ...

Today, little is known about Samuel Howard, a 71-year-old Jewish man who died in 1959 and ... even if they couldn’t pay for a burial service or a headstone.” Clark County does pay for some ...

The court rejected the appeal, nullified the will, and ruled that the woman must be buried in Israel in accordance with ...