Burying Jew… After Jew… After Jew: Providing a Final Kindness During the Coronavirus Pandemic
As Jews around the world sat down to their Purim seudah, Rabbi Shlomie Feldman’s mind wandered. He had started to hear talk of a serious virus coming out of China. Rabbi Feldman, the human resources director for Chesed Shel Emes (CSE) – a volunteer burial organization – immediately began thinking
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Chesed Born of Corona
Since inception, the organization has buried about two thousand meisei mitzvah — those who leave no family or money to ensure a Jewish burial The Ultimate Kindness It’s only when you hear Rabbi Mayer Berger talk of the more than 600 taharos that Chesed Shel Emes, a large Brooklyn Chevra
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Chesed Shel Emes: Coronavirus is ‘hitting every block, every street, every family’
Arutz Sheva speaks with coordinator of Jewish organization which helps families dealing with loss. 'No limit to the craziness, the tragedy.' Arutz Sheva spoke with Benjy Spiro of Chesed Shel Emes, USA, which helps families devastated by loss, as well as those with no family or no financial
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Chesed Shel Emes Volunteers Work Hours After Jersey City Attack
In the dark hours following the attack on a Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, Chesed Shel Emes Volunteers arrived to do the important work of Kovod Hames. See the photos of the horrendous scene.
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Chesed Shel Emes Kevurah for Holocaust Baby Raised by Christians
NEW YORK - A meis mitzvah levayah was held Sunday night for a Jewish man raised by Christians after his parents were presumably killed in the Holocaust. Several weeks ago, Robert Nadeau, an 82-year-old patient near death at the Elizabeth Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, informed the
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