Jewish funerals are by tradition modest and inexpensive — no flowers, no viewing and just a plain pine box. And to encourage Washington’s Jewish community to follow these traditions ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- Jewish funerals are by tradition modest and inexpensive -- no flowers, no viewing and just a plain pine box. And to encourage Washington's Jewish community to follow ...

Milgrim and her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, both worked for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., when they were shot and killed.

The Jewish community has felt that forced separation acutely. While some Christian funerals have been postponed indefinitely, Jewish tradition calls for the dead to be buried within 24 to 48 hours.

Joel A. Weinstein a funeral director to the Chicago-area Jewish community for more than 50 years, in the late 1950s used his many contacts to start a congregation for his faith in north suburban ...