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Over eight years ago, Sharon Laufer, who made aliyah to Israel from Teaneck, N.J., was hired by the Israel Defense Forces to prepare female bodies for burial. ....
Women’s Casualty Treatment Unit and “Chevra Kadisha’” in the IDF By Toby Klein Greenwald “Chevra Kadisha” is the generic name for the organization that exists in every city where there are Jews, commonly known as “burial society.” Its work is conducting a “taharah” (translated as “purification”), which is preparing the body for burial, and […] ....
Soldiers in the IDF, male or female, who lose their life while enlisted are taken care of by the army’s hevra kadisha and have the right to be buried in an army cemetery. ....
50 years ago: The April 6, 1972, edition of The AJT featured an article entitled “Hump Mountain.” Well, as I have been in the hospital two weeks, I never got ....