Transleithanian Paradise
... community provided much needed cohesiveness for what was otherwise a diffuse collection of individual Jewish ... (Hevra Kadisha).79 The function of this organization underlines the parallels and differences between the Jewish ...
Jewish Communities on the Ohio River
... Society of Daviess County, purchased a cemetery. This hevra. kadisha was also the worship community until 1878, when congregation Adath Israel built a permanent synagogue. In Paducah, Kentucky, the hevra. kadisha, named Chevra Yeshurum ...
Journey Through Grief
... communities , the members of the hevra kadisha visit the critically ill and recite prayers for healing on their behalf . In these communities the hevra kadisha will make sure that one of its members is present at the time of death ...
United Synagogue Review
Hevra Kadisha : The Final Mitzvah It is my hope that you also will become passionate about serving on the hevra ... community hevra kadisha sponsored and organized by a local funeral home that caters to the needs of the entire ...
CCAR JOURNAL - FALL 2021
... Hevra Kadisha " ( Community Hevra Kadisha of Greater Boston , March 5 , 2020 ) , https://www.keshetonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ Toward - a - Gender - Inclusive - Hevra - Kadisha - final - .pdf . 32. Cohen et al . , “ Toward a ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion
... Community Hevra Kadisha of Greater Boston has put together a document called " Toward a Gender - Inclusive Hevra Kadisha , " which " works to provide a framework for inclusion of transgender and gender nonconforming Jews in traditional ...
The Jews in Poland and Russia
... hevra kadisha , the ' holy society ' responsible for caring for the dying , bury- ing the dead , and maintaining the cemetery.36 This was usually the first associa- tion to be created in a community ... hevra kadisha ' , was made up of ...
Pinkas, Kahal, and the Mediene
... hevra, although the community must at least have had a burial society. The Hague pinkas mentions two hevras several times. One is the hevra kadisha ... hevra in the spring of 1724.11 Clearly, the hevra had not existed until then, at least ...
And God Created Hope
... community's process of letting go . And if you're a member of a Hevra Kadisha and pre- pare the body of a member of your community , it prepares you to begin the letting - go process when one of your own loved ones dies . Today ...
The Third Jewish Catalog
Creating Community : [with a Cumulative Index to All 3 Catalogs] Sharon Strassfeld, Michael Strassfeld. Hevra Kadisha THE TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS חסד של אמת I wish you guys would stop complaining . How do you think I feel ? " Having carried ...
Jewish Social Studies
... Hevra Kadisha and not the community that acquired the cemetery in 1761. In Glogau , where 1,200 Jews resided in 1687 , and in Zuelz , it was the task of the Hevra Kadisha to take care of the pinkas of the deceased . ( See Brann , Marcus ...
Tentative List of Jewish Cultural Treasures in Axis-occupied Countries
Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction. BRATISLAVA 144. Archives of the Hevra Kadisha ... Community . Coll . of antiquities and large library with about 25,000 vols ... Hevra Kadisha of the community of Kanitz with its ...
Jews in Eastern Europe
... Hevra Kadisha , which had to compromise with the new conditions of the period ; sometimes even con- ducting funerals ... community in places where such communities existed . Fees for burial and cemetery maintenance services constituted a ...
Israel Directory
... Hevra Anglo - Eretz - Israel Lifinancim Ltd. 467 Hevra Kadisha by Chief Rabbinate Heller , Zeev Heller , Bernard ... Community Hevra Kadisha of Tiberias Hevra Kadisha Haifa Hevrat Mashevot Achim Asnin Afula Ltd. 940 Service Ltd ...
Jewish Cultural Affairs
... community : Polish , German , and Hungarian Jews . Today the Germans are in the majority . The picture of the ... Hevra Kadisha were established . The author likewise describes in detail the problem of immigration , the attitud of the Chilean ...
Jews of Yugoslavia, 1918-1941
... community organised a religious court , Bet Din , which con- sisted of the chief rabbi as chairman , one rabbi or ... Hevra Kadisha . " This institution was represented and run by the same men who formed the community's leadership ...
Zamosc Memorial Book
... Hevra obligates itself to provide funds for the repair of the mikva in the amount of 90 gulden from the funds they received from the heirs of the widow ... B Year 1728. Because the community has become impoverished , and had to sell or ...
Forum on the Jewish People, Zionism and Israel
accruing to Jewish education . Thus , in one measure , the community could again be- come a " sacred " community , the Hevra Kadisha could be reestablished in a digni- fied and proper fashion , the synagogue could work together with ...
Jews at the Crossroads
Examines the social and political history of the Jews of Miskolc-the third largest Jewish community in Hungary-and presents the wider transformation of Jewish identity during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It explores the emergence of a...