Jewish burial rites explained: The meaning behind shroud, pine casket

A Catholic reader from Boca Raton asks the South Florida Sun Sentinel's Lois Solomon about Jewish burial rites, wondering why the body of her friend who recently died was wrapped in a white shroud and placed in a plain pine box for burial.

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