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"The Burial of Sarah" by Gustave Dore
Posted inTorah

The death of Sarah is the Torah at its most relatable

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan October 29, 2021October 28, 2021
The author (on his mother’s lap) with the family in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1948.
Posted inBooks

New memoir: Grieving his mother while the towers were falling

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 9, 2021
Placing stones on a headstone at a Jewish cemetery honors the deceased. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

An unveiling without a headstone? A shortage challenges grieving families

by Stewart Ain and Forward August 26, 2021
Images of Andres Levine, Ilan Naibryf and Deborah Berezdivin, three of the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse, among other photographs of those missing posted at a makeshift memorial on the building site in Surfside, Florida, June 26, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Andrea Sarcos-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

These are the Jewish victims of the Surfside building collapse

Shira Hanau by Ben Harris, Shira Hanau and JTA July 2, 2021July 2, 2021
Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building, June 25, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Joe Raedle-Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

For Jewish burial societies, Surfside building collapse presents a grim and complex task

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA June 28, 2021
Rebecca Handler's first novel is "Edie Richter is Not Alone." (Photo/Kristen Sard)
Posted inCulture

Rebecca Handler grieved for her father by writing a novel — and swimming in the bay

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett June 3, 2021June 9, 2021
Eric Fomil with grandson Ilan Rosenbaum.
Posted inCommunity

Our Pandemic Year: Lives lost and families changed forever

by Liz Harris March 18, 2021March 20, 2021
Sinai Memorial Chapel's main office on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inFirst Person

An inside look at our Jewish funeral home during Covid

Sam Salkin by Sam Salkin March 2, 2021
How many yahrzeit candles is enough?
Posted inJewish Life

Buy yahrzeit candles in bulk? And so it goes these pandemic days

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz January 27, 2021
Sinai Memorial Chapel's main office on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inNews

Sinai Memorial says ‘no’ to indoor funerals as S.F. eases restrictions

by Gabriel Greschler September 3, 2020September 4, 2020

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