This section provides information about Jewish burials and cemeteries, as well as guidance on the selection of a final resting place, memorial stones, and visiting a cemetery.What is a Jewish Cemetery A Jewish cemetery is a cemetery that it is exclusively for the burial or entombment of deced...
A Montreal Jewish cemetery was desecrated over the weekend when pebbles on gravestones were rearranged in the shape ofNazi swastikas, Canadian politicians and Jewish groups said on Tuesday. Hampstead Mayor Jeremy Levi condemned the vandalism of Kehal Israel Memorial Park, in which the stones that ar...
VILNIUS—The tragi-comic charade of the “museum & memorial complex” in the middle of the Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery at Piramónt (in Shnípishok, today’s Šnipiškės district of modern Vilnius, capital of modern democratic Lithuania) took another bizarre turn today. A triumphant BNS p...
Return of the Stones Return of the Stones Memorial In January 2019 I first became aware that Jewish gravestones had been cut up and made into cobble stones for use in city streets during the communist era. I wrote about this on the Walking on Gravestones post. I’d heard that the ...
Another Jewish funeral custom for some includes visiting the cemetery on fast days and before Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when possible, and for a Yahrzeit. Even when visiting the graves of someone they never knew, the visitor may place a small stone at the graveside to show that the grav...
Placing stones on the memorial monument. Photo credits: Bożena Gajewska We thought that was it, but Bożena had one more surprise for us: a sign for the gate identifying this as a Jewish cemetery. She thought of it two nights ago, ordered it the next morning, and picked it up shortl...
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Immediately on returning from the cemetery, mourners should be greeted with a “meal of consolation” prepared by their extended family and/or community. It is traditional to place a pitcher of water, a bowl and towels outside the door of the house for the ritual hand washing. ...
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“Sanitation Law” in 1881 would finally grow into a redevelopment plan signed into law in 1893 and would spell the end of the recognisable Prague Jewish Quarter.This city redevelopment initiative would eventually destroy every building in Josefovwith the exception of theOld Jewish Cemetery(including...