Chevrah Kadisha in Various Communities
Jewish Ritual Reality and Response at the End of Life | Mark A. Popovsky for the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life – May 2007 |
Renewal synagogue in Berkeley embraces life-affirming burial ritual |
Berkeley – Chochmat HaLev – Dec 2011 |
Hevra Kadisha Guide | Congregation Or Zarua |
A Reform Temple Trains for the Mitzva of Burying the Dead | New Jersey Jewish News – 2003 |
Guide to the Hevra Kadisha | Conservative Movement – 1998 |
Hevra Kadisha: The Final Mitzvah | Rabbi Mel Glazer talks about his experience with the Hevra Kadisha and the Conservative Movement |
How To Form A New Chevra Kadisha | Rebutting objections to forming or joining a burial society–and practical steps on how to do so – By Rabbi Abner Weiss |
We Do The Best We Can – Jewish Burial Societies in Small Communities in North America – Part 1 and Part 2 | 16 Interviews with Chevra Kadisha Members by Lynn Greenhough |
The London, Ontario Hevra Kaddisha | A Critical Reflection on the Nature of the Experience To Those Who Perform It – by Rabbi Mel Glazer |
Hevra Kadisha in the State of Israel | 122 listings with contact information |
Hevra Kadisha [Burial Society] of the Jerusalem Community v. Lionel Aryeh Kastenbaum | Can non-Hebrew be inscribed on a tombstone in the Hevra Kadisha’s cemetery? |
Burial Societies of Moroccan Jews and the Fes Jewish Cemetery | Marc Eliany |
Images from a Bygone Ghetto-Life in Moravia | Ignaz Briess – 1838-1848 |