Then they took Jesus' body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs. New Heart English Bible So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, according to Jewish burial practice. ...
It should be noted that on account of his burial and that of other gangsters at this cemetery located behind Paramount Studios, many Jewish Hollywood studio families who had already purchased plots at this cemetery years before, they later refused to be buried next to this gangster which they c...
women singing the dirge and beating the drum led the funeral procession, as they still do in the East (Jer. ix. 16; M. Ḳ. iii. 8-9; Kelim xv. 6; Schwarz, "Das Heilige Land," p. 342), though at times they follow the bier (Lane, "Customs of the Egyptians," ch. xxviii....
Rosenberg’s request to clean the victims’ blood off the pavement so that it could be sent for burial was met with a blank stare from the Metropolitan Police Department officer stationed at the crime scene. “He told me that no one had said anything about a cleanup,” recalled Rosenberg....
In some places it is observed on the fifteenth of Kislew; in some on the seventh of Adar; while others have other days for its observance (see Burial Society). It is also customary to fast on the eve of New-Year's Day (Tan., Emor, s.v. "U-Leḳaḥtem"), while many fast...
The habitual large-scale violence inflicted on humanity in the name of God must no longer be neglected. If the sabbath is something bad, it is absolutely right to abolish it. Intellectuals in developed countries must begin the abolition of bad laws and customs, and persuade other developing cou...
8. SHIVA. There may be an announcement about shiva, the gathering at the home for (traditionally) seven days after the burial. If the family announces specific times, go only at those times. At the shiva house, remember that your presence is what matters. You cannot make their pain go ...
U.S. Teen Places Second in International Bible Quiz in Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel - May 2, 2025 - The annual Israeli Independence Day International Bible Quiz for Youth took place on Thursday at the Jerusalem Theater. The event was broadcast live throughout Israel. The prestigious competition ...
Minister in 1875 “informed Henri Blowitz, the Bohemian Jew who was the Paris correspondent of The Times of a confidential dispatch from the French ambassador to Berlin, discussing German plans to attack France” which he asked Blowitz to publish as part of an effective plan to prevent the Germ...
Thus, Jewish otherness was shown in two ways: in physical, somatic signs seen in facial fea- tures and hair that mark an embodied otherness, and in behaviour, including patterns of speech, customs, laws, and sexuality, what we might call the per- formance of otherness. Jews were inferior...