It has been nearly a year since the Covid virus unceremoniously injected itself into almost every dimension of our daily lives. It has meant “Not Business as Usual” at Sinai Memorial Chapel, our community’s nonprofit funeral home and chevra kadisha (Jewish burial society) since 1901.
Our service to our community continues to be grounded in
chesed shel
K’vod hamet, honoring the deceased, is our guide, first and foremost.
In mid-March 2020, in order to respond to the emerging Covid pandemic, we felt compelled to turn our world upside down. Our operating priority became the health and well-being of our community and staff. We could not allow funerals to create more funerals.
PARKERSBURG West Virginia University at Parkersburg is inviting students, faculty, staff and alumni to participate in efforts to commemorate the school’s
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The new-look Australian Centre for the Moving Image has a sense of big ideas and far-reaching ambitions. These can be expressed on a small scale, however, in objects or features with a personal touch: something to activate with a gesture, to carry in your hand, to connect you in the moment to the past.
Home movies play out on a visitorâs hand in ACMIâs new Memory Garden.
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Russell Cobb Babcock
Russell Cobb Babcock, 95, of Sherman, passed away Wednesday (Jan. 27, 2021) at UPMC Chautauqua. (Most recently, Russell resided at Memory Garden at Tanglewood in Jamestown, N.Y. Previous to that, he resided at Brookdale Assisted Living in Lakewood, N.Y.)
A private graveside service will be held at Sherman Cemetery, Sherman, N.Y. Full obituary is forth-coming and a Celebration of Life will be held at a future date. Spitzer Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
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People visit the Hoshuen tree burial graveyard at the Shogakuan sub-temple of Tofukuji temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward on Nov. 18. (Kenta Sujino)
KYOTO Under the autumn foliage, Kazuo Taniguchi, 76, and his wife, Etsuko, 75, wandered around the Shogakuan sub-temple here and picked a place to spend eternity together.
They had visited from Otsu in neighboring Shiga Prefecture to see the “tree burial graveyard” called Hoshuen in late October.
“It is so bright, so nice, here,” Etsuko said.
After deciding that one plot was the best because of the presence of a monument, the couple signed a contract for a grave for two people.