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Cemetery and Burial

Jewish Cemeteries – Green and Greener

by David Zinner 
What is a Jewish Cemetery and how to make it green(er)
 
Relevant Teshuvot:

Burial

  • Morris Feldman, "May a Mausoleum Be Used for Jewish Burial?" YD 362:1.1983
  • David H. Lincoln, "The Use of Mausoleums for Jewish Burial" YD 362:1.1983
  • Paul Plotkin, "Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity" YD 345:5.1994
  • Myron S. Geller, "Peaceful Paths" YD 367:1.1994n
  • Myron S. Geller, "Exhuming the Dead" YD 363.1996
  • Myron S. Geller, "Bury Him, Yes, Bury Him" YD 345:5.1998
  • Kassel Abelson and Loel Weiss, "Burial of a Non-Jewish Spouse" YD 367:1.2010

Non-Burial Disposition of the Body

  • Morris Shapiro, "Cremation in the Jewish Tradition" YD 348.1986
  • Ben Zion Bokser, "A Statement on Funerals in the Synagogue" YD 353:3.1983
  • Jeremy Kalmanofsky, "Alternative Kevura Methods" YD 362:1.2017a
    • Daniel S. Nevins, Noah Bickart, Josh Heller, "Concurring Opinion on Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky’s 'Alternative Kevurah Methods'" YD 362:1.2017b
    • Elliot N. Dorff, joined by Amy Levin and Kass Abelson, "Concurrence to Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky’s Paper on Alternative Modes of Burial" YD 362:1.2017c
    • Morris Feldman, "May a Mausoleum Be Used for Jewish Burial?" YD 362:1.1983
    • David H. Lincoln, "The Use of Mausoleums for Jewish Burial" YD 362:1.1983

Cemetery

  • Ben Zion Bergman, "A Matter of Grave Concern" YD 367:1.1991
  • J. David Bleich, “Contemporary halachic problems with consecrated land”, 1977-2005
  • Pamela Barmash, “Military Cemeteries and Military Funerals” YD 357:1.2018
    • Noah Bickart, Baruch Frydman-Kohl, Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Jan Kaufman, Amy Levin, Jonathan Lubliner, "Concurrence to 'Military Cemeteries and Military Funerals'" YD 357:1.2018b
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