Cemetery and Burial
Posted on: Tuesday November 26, 2019
Jewish Cemeteries – Green and Greener
by David Zinner
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