The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards

The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards sets halakhic policy for Rabbinical Assembly rabbis and for the Conservative movement. These are selected Teshuvot related to death, burial, and mourning.
Source	Subject	Title with Link	Talmud	Year	Author
Masorti	Burial	Engraving on a Gravestone a Name Which Was Added During an Illness	YD 335:10		David Golinkin
CJLS	Mourning	Treatment of the Loss of a Fetus Through Miscarriage	YD 340:30	1987	Isidoro Aizenberg
CJLS	Mourning	Response to Miscarriage	YD 340:30	1991a	Debra Reed Blank
CJLS	Mourning	Response to Miscarriage: A Dissent	YD 340:30	1991b	Amy Eilberg
CJLS	Mourning	Jewish Ritual Practice Following a Stillbirth	YD 340:30	1996a	Stephanie Dickstein
CJLS	Mourning	What's In a Name?: A Concurrence and Dissent on the Ritual Practice Following a Stillbirth	YD 340:30	1996b	Ben Zion Bergman
CJLS	Mourning	Assisted Suicide	YD 345	1997a	Elliot N. Dorff
CJLS	Mourning	Statement on Assisted Suicide	YD 345	1997b
CJLS	Mourning	Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity	YD 345:5	1994	Paul Plotkin
CJLS	Burial	Bury Him, Yes, Bury Him, A Concurring Opinion to Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity	YD 345:5	1998	Myron S. Geller
CJLS	Cremation	Cremation in the Jewish Tradition	YD 348	1986	Morris Shapiro
Masorti	Organ Donation	The Donation of Bodies to Medical Schools	YD 349:1-2; 357:1		Gilah Dror
Masorti	Organ Donation	Organ Transplants and Donor Cards	YD 349:1-2; 357:1		David Golinkin
CJLS	Tahara	I Shall Sprinkle Pure Water Upon You and You Shall Be Purified: A Question of Taharah	YD 352:3	1998	Ben Zion Bergman
Masorti	Tahara	The Tohorah Ritual	YD 352:4		David Golinkin
Masorti	Tahara	Tohorah for those who Died of AIDS	YD 352:4.		Simchah Roth
CJLS	Funeral	Statement on Funerals in the Synagogue	YD 353:3	1983	Ben Zion Bokser
Masorti	Funeral	The Participation of Women in Funerals	YD 359	5747	David Golinkin
CJLS	Burial	May a Mausoleum Be Used for Jewish Burial?	YD 362:1	1983	Morris Feldman
CJLS	Burial	The Use of Mausoleums for Jewish Burial	YD 362:1	1983	David H. Lincoln
Masorti	Burial	Layered Burial and Burial in Mausolea	YD 362:1		David Golinkin
Masorti	Burial	Burial in a Coffin in Eretz Yisrael	YD 362:1		Pesach Schindler
CJLS	Burial	Exhuming the Dead	YD 363	1996	Myron S. Geller
CJLS	Burial	A Matter of Grave Concern: A Question of Mixed Burial	YD 367:1	1991	Ben Zion Bergman
CJLS	Burial	Peaceful Paths: Burial of Non-Jews in a Jewish Cemetery Following a Common Disaster	YD 367:1	1994	Myron S. Geller
Masorti	Burial	The Burial of Non-Jews in a Jewish Cemetery	YD 367:1		David Golinkin
CJLS	Mourning	Ad Heikhan Hu Bodek? -- Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death	YD 370:1	2004	Daniel S. Nevins
CJLS	Mourning	Converts Mourning the Death of Close Relatives	YD 374:5	1998	Joel Rembaum
CJLS	Mourning	Mourning for a Newborn	YD 374:8	1987	Isidoro Aizenberg
CJLS	Mourning	Jewish Ritual Practice Following the Death of an Infant Who Lives Less Than Thirty-One Days	YD 374:8	1992a	Stephanie Dickstein
CJLS	Mourning	Kim Li: A Dissenting Concurrence	YD 374:8	1992b	Avram Israel Reisner
CJLS	Mourning	Ritual of Mourning When a Body is Not Recovered	YD 375:7	2001	Kassel Abelson and Mayer Rabinowitz
Masorti	Mourning	Women and the Mourners' Kaddish	YD 376:4	5749	David Golinkin
CJLS	Mourning	On the Status of Missing Persons	YD 397	1987	Isidoro Aizenberg
CJLS	Mourning	Welcoming Mourners on Shabbat	YD 400:1	2000	Baruch Frydman-Kohl