Funeral

At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust

Foxman spent decades as one of the world’s most recognizable Jewish advocates, serving for nearly 30 years as the ADL’s top professional and another two decades before that in its leadership ranks.

Abe Foxman delivering remarks on April 23, 2025, during the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony held at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Inset, Foxman with the nanny who hid him during the Holocaust, Bronislawa Kurpi.
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How songs become memory: The role of music on Israel’s Memorial Day

A panoramic view of the Mount of Olives

High Court orders state to explain failure to establish civil cemetery for Jerusalem residents

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir salutes as he stands with the family of fallen soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin at his funeral in Kfar Saba Military Cemetery, November 11, 2025.

After 11 years, Hadar Goldin's family marks Remembrance Day with closure


This is why Israel plans to bury hundreds of cars, with ashes and blood stains

To preserve the sanctity of those murdered by Hamas, for the first time since the establishment of the state, they decided to bury the vehicles.

 Rabbi Yaakov Rose of ZAKA Tel Aviv examining the cars with remains in southern Israel

‘She was light itself’: Family, friends, unit mourn Rose Lubin

Lubin was murdered in a stabbing attack carried out by a resident of east Jerusalem near Herod's Gate of the Old City in Jerusalem.

 People gather for the funeral of Israeli-American Border Police officer Sgt. Rose Ida (Elisheva) Lubin.

Haredi women launch site allowing people to send condolences to bereaved Israelis

The website includes most of the names of the more than 1,400 Israelis who were killed, with a few sentences of information, the date of the funeral, and the date of the shloshim.

An image from nachamuami.com showing some of those killed on October 7.

Israel is the only place we should want to be - opinion

From the moment I stepped off the plane from London to make this my permanent home, there was no going back.

 YOUTHS DANCE and wave the flag near Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem, after the start of the Gaza War.

Anglo-Israeli woman helps prepare victims of Hamas massacre for burial

Avigail Gimpel is now one of just a handful of women in Israel trained to do this kind of heart-wrenching work with terror victims.

 Each body represents a victim (Illustrative).

Family of east Jerusalem resident who was killed on October 7 talk about his death

In a conversation with KAN News, A'abed shared his distress over what he described as dismissive treatment from the authorities when he tried to locate his brother.

 Palestinians react as an Israeli military vehicle burns after it was hit by Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated areas of southern Israel, at the Israeli side of Israel-Gaza border, October 7, 2023.

An Israeli author was excited for his best friend’s wedding. After Oct. 7, it became a funeral

Since Golan’s wedding would instead be a funeral — which Jews traditionally hold as soon as possible after a person’s death — Gefen showed up at the airport on October 8, without a ticket in hand.

 (Illustrative) Israel police block a road, as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip, near Ashkelon, southern Israel October 7, 2023.

How to conduct a Jewish wedding when Israel is still burying its dead?

If a funeral procession and wedding procession meet at a crossroads, which one has the right of way? The talmud says the wedding should lead. We must lead with life.

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Facing death up close: A man buries himself alive in a unique experience

Víctor Amela, a man in his 60s, lived through a mock funeral for an hour to gain a unique perspective on death, finding it to be a challenging and transformative experience.


'I grieved at a funeral in Israel this week. But not for too long — another was about to start'

The funeral of Yosef Malachi Guedalia, a ­­­22-year-old sergeant-major from the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite Duvdevan combat unit, was interrupted by air raid sirens.

 Sderot following the Oct. 7 attack