Thousands of people gathered in Beirut on Sunday to attend the funeral of Hezbollah’s former leader nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese ...

In the days before the funeral, the body is not left alone. Shiva is the first seven days of mourning after the burial. Some Jews (particularly Orthodox ... sure that a Jewish person has a proper ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men help a man climb the cemetery wall so he can watch the funeral procession of the prominent rabbi Although he held no official position, Kanievsky was considered a ...

On Tuesday, a broad coalition of Jewish organizations ... called the officiants of the funeral to make sure his presence would be welcome. “’I’m an Orthodox rabbi, I’m a Zionist rabbi ...