Burial societies, funeral homes are busy. Cremation isn’t the answer.

Just as morgue workers will need to safely handle corpses of those victims who desire cremation, Jewish burial societies can efficiently and carefully bring our beloved to their final resting spots.

An Israeli rabbi walks alongside the body of Eliahu Bakshi-Doron, the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, who died from complications of the coronavirus

(photo credit: AHMAD GHARABLI VIA GETTY IMAGES/JTA)

ByRABBI SHLOMO BRODY/JTA

APRIL 25, 2020 22:09

Burial societies, funeral homes are busy. Cremation isn’t the answer.

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Burial societies, funeral homes are busy. Cremation isn’t the answer.

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