Tag: Funeral
Attorney seeks six months’ notice before Chassidic funerals in Upstate New York
Jewish law explicitly prohibits consulting soothsayers and fortune tellers. But that’s just what the Upstate New York village of Chestnut Ridge apparently expects a Chassidic cemetery called Har Shalom to do.
After traffic was held up for...
Funeral takes place for Holocaust survivor David ‘Dugo’ Leitner, 94
David “Dugo” Leitner was born in Hungary in 1930 to his parents, Meir and Golda Leah, and raised in an Orthodox home. In March 1944, invading Nazi Germans corralled his family to the ghetto;...
Thousands attend funeral for British Israeli Lucy Dee, two days after daughters’ funerals
Thousands gathered on Tuesday afternoon in Israel for the funeral of 48-year-old Lucy Dee, who died on April 10, days after being shot in the April 7 terror attack that also claimed the lives...
Riots break out in Jerusalem after funeral of Palestinian
Rioting broke out in eastern Jerusalem and in the Old City on Monday night following the funeral of Walid al-Sharif, a Palestinian who was injured on the Temple Mount during clashes several weeks ago as he...
Israel Police to launch investigation after clash erupts at Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral
The Israel Police announced on Friday that it will launch an investigation into officers’ handling of the Jerusalem funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh earlier in the day, but emphasized that it supports its officers...
Victims of terrorist shooting in Bnei Brak laid to rest
Some of the victims of the deadly terror attack in Bnei Brak carried out Tuesday night by a Palestinian gunman were laid to rest on Wednesday.
The terrorist, Diaa Hamarsheh, 27, who entered Israel illegally...
Four victims of Beersheva stabbing attack laid to rest; two women remain hospitalized
Two out of four Israelis who were murdered in a car-ramming and stabbing attack in Beersheva on Tuesday were laid to rest on Wednesday afternoon.
The victims have been named as Laura Yitzhak, 43, a mother of three; Doris...
Hundreds of thousands accompany Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky to final resting place
Approximately 750,000 people gathered on Sunday morning in Bnei Brak in central Israel to accompany Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, who died on March 18, to his final resting place at the Shomrei Shabbat Bnei Brak...
Israel’s former first lady laid to rest on Mount Herzl
Aura Herzog, Israel’s former first lady and the mother of Israel’s current president, Isaac Herzog, was buried on Wednesday at the Great Leaders of the Nation Plot on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem. She was laid...
Large haredi funeral processions in Jerusalem hit raw nerve after recent violent clashes
Thousands of people packed the streets Sunday in Jerusalem to participate in the funeral processions of two prominent haredi rabbis, both of whom passed away due to complications from COVID-19.
The large processions—the first on Sunday afternoon...