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  • The final resting place of Rose Mallinger, 97, lays ready for her casket in the Tree of Life Memorial Park on Oct. 31, 2018, in Pittsburgh. Mallinger, a mother of three, grandmother to five, and great-grandmother of one, was among the 11 victims killed in the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018.
    The final resting place of Rose Mallinger, 97, lays ready for her casket in the Tree of Life Memorial Park on Oct. 31, 2018, in Pittsburgh. Mallinger, a mother of three, grandmother to five, and great-grandmother of one, was among the 11 victims killed in the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018.
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    Their Bloods Cry Out From the Ground

    The team tasked with the ritual preparation of the bodies of the victims of the Pittsburgh massacre lean on thousands of years of Jewish martyrdom

    byShira Telushkin
  • Pitcher used in ritually cleansing the dead.
    Pitcher used in ritually cleansing the dead.
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    Morbid Curiosities

    A tour through a collection of Jewish funerary objects

    byJeannie Rosenfeld
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    Death Penalty

    Crises face the newly departed

    byHadara Graubart
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    Preparing the Dead

    A burial society’s life lessons

    byDiana Bletter
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