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A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years

(JTA) — For decades a museum of Jewish art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, held the remains of several unidentified Holocaust victims in its collection. But last week the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art took ...

NYPD chaplain Rabbi Alvin Kass— department’s longest serving member— remembered as ‘moral heart’ of the force at funeral

Rabbi Alvin Kass — known for bravely rushing to ground zero on 9/11 and famously disarming a hostage-taker with two pastrami ...

Readers on cemeteries: Leave a penny, shed some tears, take some hope – Terry Pluto’s Faith & You

It is emotional. It can bring tears and sadness. But as I walk through the cemetery and say my hellos and pray for their souls, there is one overriding emotion: hope. Hope that we all will be united ...
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The haunting history of the Jewish burial society that cares for NYC’s lost and forgotten

Since 1888, the Hebrew Free Burial Association has ensured that in the city that never sleeps, the poor and huddled masses ...
The Forward

Meet the Jewish funeral cats of Sacramento

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A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years

The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art wasn’t the first museum to bury remains of Holocaust victims in its collection. For decades a museum of Jewish art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, held the remains of ...