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Entrance sign along westbound New York State Route 340 just after entering Rockland County, N.Y. Credit: Famartin via Wikimedia Commons.

Attorney seeks six months’ notice before Chassidic funerals in Upstate New York

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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...
Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor David (“Dugo”) Leitner in Moshav Nir Galim in Israel on July 27, 2023. Photo by Liron Moldovan/Flash90.

Funeral takes place for Holocaust survivor David ‘Dugo’ Leitner, 94

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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;...
Family and friends attend the funeral of Lucy Dee, 48, at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion on April 11, 2023. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Thousands attend funeral for British Israeli Lucy Dee, two days after daughters’ funerals

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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

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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...
The funeral procession of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during in Jenin during a clash between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen, at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May 13, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel Police to launch investigation after clash erupts at Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral

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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...
An enormous crowd gathers for the funeral procession of Rabbi Avishai Yechezkel, 29, who was one of four people killed in a terrorist shooting attack in Bnei Brak, Israel, on March 30, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Victims of terrorist shooting in Bnei Brak laid to rest

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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...
Mourners carry the body of 67-year-old Menahem Yehezkel, who was stabbed to death by a Bedouin Arab during a car-ramming attack in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva on March 22, during his funeral at a Beersheva cemetery on March 23, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Four victims of Beersheva stabbing attack laid to rest; two women remain hospitalized

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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...
The funeral procession of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in Bnei Brak, March 20, 2022. Credit: City of Bnei Brak.

Hundreds of thousands accompany Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky to final resting place

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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...
The funeral of Aura Herzog, wife of late Israeli president Chaim Herzog,and mother of current Israeli President Isaac Herzog, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on Jan. 12, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israel’s former first lady laid to rest on Mount Herzl

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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...
Haredi Jews attend the funeral of the late Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik on Jan. 31, 2021, in Jerusalem. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Large haredi funeral processions in Jerusalem hit raw nerve after recent violent clashes

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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...