Web site of the Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington

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Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington

	Jewish Funerals, Burial, and Mourning
	*Cemetery and Burial*

Fully Funded Cemetery Maintenance Funds - Now and Forever	By David Zinner
Non-Jewish Burial	14 articles on intermarriage and non-Jewish burials
New Jewish Cemetery	Eugene, Oregon
The Cemetery Nobody Wants	By Julie Wiener now from the Jewish Week
Florida Cemetery	Menorah Gardens desecration
Burial vs. Cremation	23 articles covering Jewish views, other religions and practical issues
Shemot - burial of sacred objects	6 articles examining traditions around book and object burial.
Alphabet Inscriptions on Ancient Jewish Graves	Why should one write down the alphabet on a grave? Curse or homework?
Translations Of Common Hebrew And Yiddish Words In Landsmanshaftn And Burial Society Names
First Zolynia Chevre Society And Zolynia Cemetery Plots
Chevra Chadisha Burial Brotherhood Society	The Chevra Chadisha building was constructed at the beginning of this century as the place in which the famous Burial Brotherhood Society of Prague met.
Monuments Drash	We do spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to build up reputations, portfolios, possessions and achievements.
Czech Heritage Action Initiative
Czech actor has new role: documenting the vanished	Achab Haidler restores and documents Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic. See also http://czechjewish.virtualave.net/achab.html
The Final Mitzvah	A New York burial society provides a Jewish final resting place for the poor. Victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 are buried here.
Jewish Cemeteries Unflapped By Proposed Tax On Dead	An initiative to tax each grave in Colma, CA could cost the Bay Area Jewish community more than $24 million. 75% of the city's businesses are cemeteries.
How Wyatt Earp Got Buried in a Jewish Cemetery	Colma, California
Gold Country Jews battling preservationists over cemetery	The Nevada Hebrew Benevolent Society, the original trustee of the cemetery, was defunct. In an effort to forge a cradle-to-grave Jewish community, NCJCC members want to reclaim the pioneer cemetery.
Breaking The Burial Monopoly	In Be'er Sheva, the country's first civil cemetery will be inaugurated. Menuha Nekhona - the Association for Eternal Rest and Bet Almin Ezrachi Chalufi - The Cemetery of Civil Alternatives.
Green Burial	Articles, sites and resources.
The Desecration of Graves in Eretz Yisrael: The Struggle to Honor the Dead and Preserve Our Historical Legacy	The problem of bones being found at construction sites has always existed but its prevalence greatly increased after 1967 with the dramatic proliferation of development in and around Jerusalem.
Congregational Handbook - Cemeteries	United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism - 1961