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Posted: Friday, December 27, 2013 8:37 am
A new nondenominational Jewish burial society has replaced an Orthodox one at a Boston-area Jewish funeral home.
Community Hevra Kadisha of Greater Boston, which launched this fall and is part of a growing movement of Jewish burial societies that include non-Orthodox volunteers, began performing tahara – the ritual preparation of bodies for burial – at Brezniak-Rodman Chapel in West Newton, Mass., on Dec. 16.
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