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500 Yidden Need To Be Saved from Cremation! 500!

Hebrew Free Burial Association is a unique organization that’s been around for over 100 years and whose mission is to ensure that every Yid – regardless of their level of observance, financial resources or family dynamic - receives a proper Yiddishe burial in their Yiddishe cemetery in Staten Island. Full Story

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Rabbi Herschel Feigelstock, 98, OBM

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Such Tzadikim !
October 29, 2020 3:00 pm

We should all help their holy work – I’m sure they appreciate ( and need ) every dollar.
Moshiach NOW !!!

November 1, 2020 5:52 pm

Why does it cost so much?

SavtainSanDiego
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November 1, 2020 11:20 pm

Cemetereis all want to be paid in full before they dig a grave. Gravesites are expensive. Cemetery charges are separate from mortuary charges. A no frills funeral in San Diego is currently about $15,000 – grave side without use of a chapel. Mortuary charges include transporting the meis from place of death to mortuary then to cemetery; storage/refrigeration; tahara/shrouds/shomer; casket. Other charges are for certified death certificates; if motorcycle escort is requested or limo (very seldom used here). Gratuity to rabbi $500 (in NY they get $650). Cemetery charges are for the plot and opening and closing the grave; annual… Read more »

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