Kavod v'Nichum - Short Overview

Kavod v'Nichum is a non-profit, U.S. tax exempt Jewish educational organization. Our web site at www.Jewish-funerals.org - Jewish Funerals, Burial and Mourning - receives over 50,000 visitors a year and has hundreds of pages of materials and links. We publish Chevra Kadisha News monthly. We provide technical assistance for synagogues and communities interested in all aspects of Chevra Kadisha work.

Kavod v'Nichum can:

- lead discussions with Rabbis and lay leaders at a beginning or advanced level

- discuss the evolution of Jewish writings and practices around death from bible to Talmud to medieval times to European emigration

- explain models of organization and practice around the U.S. and Canada from non-profit owned - funeral homes to contracts; from Bikkur Cholim to Tahara and Shmira.

- identify resources such as web sites, books, papers, teaching outlines, sample brochures, check lists, sample contracts

- coordinate with movement resources, whether Reform, Renewal, Reconstructionist, Conservative or Orthodox.

- bring a wealth of Chevra Kadisha experience organizing from within the synagogue as well as among synagogues.