This has been a summer of death. During the past few weeks, I’ve attended four funerals: two for community and civic leaders, one for a great aunt and one for the father of a good friend. This, I’ve ...

As soon as Lloyd Mandel spotted the 1930s style custom Prinzing hearse at a National Funeral Directors Association convention in Chicago in 2019, the owner of Northbrook-based Mitzvah Memorial ...

In 1977, Rabbi Dennis Sasso and his wife, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, loaded up their car and drove from New York to Indianapolis. As the first practicing rabbinical couple in world Jewish history, ...

Gabriel Shacket stood on the bimah, before the Holy Ark, and led the morning service for a group of 75 family members and friends. He recited the prayers and blessings, chanted from the Torah and ...

Coronavirus is creating upheaval for Long Island's religious world with some priests unable to administer last rites or conduct funerals, a family livestreaming a bar mitzvah for the first time in ...