Jewish funerals. According to Jewish tradition, ... eulogies from the rabbi and friends and family and a reading of psalms and prayers. Generally, Jewish tradition is that a person is buried.

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Jewish prayer book annotated by Marilyn Monroe, who converted in 1956, ... Yankees star Joe DiMaggio, arranged for a funeral over which a Lutheran minister presided.

In addition, there is a “Prayers and Meditations” section that can be referenced for a parent, a sibling, child or a friend. For the visually impaired, we have audio recordings of various prayers as ...

Friends and family said goodbye to Amy Winehouse Tuesday with prayers, tears, laughter and song at a funeral ceremony in London. Cremation was planned after the service, before the family begins ...

In our previous column, we discussed the permissibility of laying wreaths at funerals and its relationship to the biblical prohibition of imitating non-Jewish behaviors (hukat hagoyim).

The funeral service - or levayah - then takes place, with accompanying eulogies and prayers. The body is then interred in the ground of the cemetery in a ceremony called Kevurah, and the grave is ...

Jewish funerals have many components, related to how and when to bury the body, accompanying the dead to the grave site, what prayers to say and how to comfort mourners.