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Responsa On Death, Burial, and Mourning - Reform Movement

Links to the CCAR responsa with references at the bottom. See complete index

Subject Special Interest Title Doc # Year Reference with Link
Autopsy   Autopsy 82 1925 ARR 278-283
Autopsy   Autopsy For Future Knowledge 84 1986 CARR 140-142
Burial Cremation Burial Of Ashes In A Mausoleum 102 1981 CARR 163-164
Burial Cremation Burial of Cremation Ashes     RRT 112-115
Burial Cremation Burial of Cremation Ashes At Home      CoRR 169-172
Burial Cremation Burial of Mother's Ashes in Son's Grave      CuRR 145-149
Burial Cremation Scattering The Ashes Of The Dead 192 1988 NARR 306-307
Burial Cremation The Ashes Of A Couple In A Single Urn 191 1990 NARR 304-305
Burial Non-Jewish Burial in a Christian cemetery 105 1986 CARR 166-167
Burial Non-Jewish Burial Of A Non-Jewish Same-Sex Spouse 20 1991-2 TFN 5752.20 111-115
Burial Non-Jewish Burial of a Prospective convert  97 1981 ARR 231-232
Burial Non-Jewish Burial Of A Teenager Of Doubtful Descent 96 1984 CARR 156-157
Burial Non-Jewish Burial of Non-Jew in Jewish Cemetery     CuRR 154-162
Burial Non-Jewish Burial of non-Jewish wives in Jewish cemeteries  80-85 1914-36 ARR 323-331
Burial Non-Jewish Burial Of Prospective Convert 97 1981 ARR 321-322
Burial Non-Jewish Doubtful Lineage And Burial 98 1984 CARR 158-160
Burial Non-Jewish Non-Jewish Burial in a Jewish Cemetery 99 1963 ARR 335-341
Burial Non-Jewish Non-Jewish Burials (Restricting Burial In The Congregation's Cemetery) 97 1985 CARR 161-162
Burial Non-Jewish Transfer of Body of Jew to Christian Cemetery     CuRR 162-165
Burial Suicide Burial Of A Suicide 88 1959 ARR 299-302
Burial   Burial at sea 104 1986 CARR 165-166
Burial   Burial customs 116 1923 ARR 373-374
Burial   Burial In His or Her City      CoRR 185-189
Burial   Burial In The Garden 103 1977 CARR 164-165
Burial   Burial Of A Divorced Wife 93 1982 CARR 153-154
Burial   Burial Of a Still-Born Child      TRR 123-125
Burial   Burial Of a Woman Married Twice 94 1984 CARR 154-155
Burial   Burial Of A Young Child 92 1983 CARR 152-153
Burial   Burial Of an Animal in a Jewish Cemetery   2012-13 5773.5
Burial   Burial Of An Apostate     RRR 127-131
Burial   Burial Of An Apostate 100 1987 CARR 161
Burial   Burial Of Convert     CoRR 240-244
Burial   Burial Of Enemies, Side By Side   1960 RR 136-140
Burial   Burial Of Human Organs 170 1988 NARR 281-282
Burial   Burial Of Jerusalem Soil Into The Grave 174 1989 NARR 285
Burial   Burial Of Jews In Section Of General Cemetery 96 1957 ARR 320-321
Burial   Burial Of Men and Women, Side By Side      MRR 260-268
Burial   Burial Of Miscarriages, Stillborn Children And Infants 106 1983 CARR 167-168
Burial   Burial Of Pet Animals      CuRR 165-169
Burial   Burial Of Second Wife     RRT 172-175
Burial   Burial on a Holy Day (Yom Tov) 95 1921 ARR 317-320
Burial   Burial on Yom Tov After a Gravedigger's Strike      CoRR 163-164
Burial   Burial With A Baton 171 1991 NARR 282-283
Burial   Burial With A Candelabra 172 1988 NARR 283-284
Burial   Burial With A Kippah 173 1989 NARR 284
Burial   Burial With First Or Second Husband 95 1984 CARR 155-156
Burial   Delayed Burial   1960 RR 150-154
Burial   Extending The Privilege Of Burial From The Synagogue 89 1984 CARR 148-150
Burial   Filling The Grave In Hot Weather 178 1989 NARR 289-290
Burial   Keys in the Coffin     NRR 262-264
Burial   Mass Burial     CuRR 169-175
Burial   Prayers At Reinterment 112 1985 CARR 173-174
Burial   Preparing for Burial on Shabbat     NRR 117-118
Burial   Some Duties of Burial     CoRR 189-193
Burial   Son's Presence Barred From Burial     RRT 282-283
Burial   Tattooing  and Burial     TRR 119-121
Burial   Tattooing, Body-Piercing, And Jewish Tradition 4 1998-9 NYP 5759.4
Burial   Temporary Burial of Fallen Israeli Soldiers      CoRR 205-212
Burial   Two Caskets In One Grave 8 1990-1 TFN 5751.8 117-118
Burial   Two Coffins in One Grave     RRT 100-104
Burial   Two Coffins In One Grave (also NRR 97-99) 107 1975 ARR 355-358
Burial   Unmarked Grave 189 1987 NARR 301-303
Burial   Vertical Burial 177 1991 NARR 288-289
Burial   Which Body To Bury First After a Gravedigger's Strike     CoRR 165-169
Casket Cremation Wife's Ashes in Husband's Coffin     MRR 237-240
Casket   Decorated Casket 175   NARR 286
Casket   Lights at the Head of the Coffin     CoRR 177-181
Casket   Open Casket 91 1979 CARR 151-152
Casket   Plastic Casket 176 1988 NARR 287-288
Casket   Wooden Nails and Handles For Coffin     RRR 153-155
Cemetery Disinterment Disinterment and mourning      TRR 094-097
Cemetery Disinterment Disinterment And Reburial 111 1984 CARR 172-173
Cemetery Disinterment Disinterment Due to Labor Strike      CoRR 160-162
Cemetery Disinterment Disinterment For Legal Evidence 110 1982 CARR 171-172
Cemetery Disinterment Disinterment From A Jewish To A Nondenominational Cemetery 5 1995-6 NYP 5756.5
Cemetery Disinterment Disinterment From Christian Cemetery     RRT 175-178
Cemetery Disinterment Question of Disinterment    2006-07 NYP 5767.3
Cemetery Disinterment Removal Of Dead Body To Another Grave 106 1922 ARR 353-355
Cemetery Non-Jewish Convert Buried in Christian Cemetery      CoRR 151-154
Cemetery Non-Jewish Employment Of Non-Jews In a Cemetery 105 1917 ARR 353
Cemetery Non-Jewish Former Christian Cemetery To Be Bought and Used by Jewish Congregation      NRR 085-087
Cemetery Non-Jewish Non-Jews Buried in Cemetery     NRR 088-091
Cemetery Non-Jewish Transfer of Body of a Jew from Jewish cemetery for Reburial in Christian Cemetery     RRT 179-181
Cemetery   Added Section To A Cemetery 199 1989 NARR 317-319
Cemetery   Alignment of Graves      CuRR 132-138
Cemetery   Building a Chapel On a Cemetery 27 1979 ARR 075-076
Cemetery   Cemetery of Defunct Congregation      MRR 240-243
Cemetery   Cemetery Plantings 204 1990 NARR 327-328
Cemetery   Cemetery Work on Rosh HaShanah     NRR 037-040
Cemetery   Choice Of A Cemetery 101 1917 ARR 348-349
Cemetery   Communal Mausoleums   1960 RR 158-161
Cemetery   Congregation Using Cemetery Money      NRR 109-113
Cemetery   Control Of A Cemetery 196 1988 NARR 311-313
Cemetery   Crypts as Family Burial Places     MRR 254-259
Cemetery   Depth of Graves     MRR 230-236
Cemetery   Direction of Graves in a Cemetery 103 1923 ARR 351-352
Cemetery   Direction of Graves in a Cemetery 104 1980 ARR 352-353
Cemetery   Encroaching Graves     TRR 065-067
Cemetery   Eternal Flame in Cemetery     MRR 249-253
Cemetery   First Grave in the Cemetery     CuRR 138-140
Cemetery   Jewish Section in General Cemetery     RRR 144-148
Cemetery   Jewish Section In General Cemetery 198 1988 NARR 315-317
Cemetery   Location of  a Tombstone     RRR 141-143
Cemetery   Naming Of A Cemetery 197 1990 NARR 313-315
Cemetery   Perpetual Light on Graves     RRT 104-108
Cemetery   Plantings or Flowers on Graves     CoRR 284-286
Cemetery   Position of Body in Grave     CoRR 172-176
Cemetery   Preferred Burial Site 102 1978 ARR 349-350
Cemetery   Responsibility For Cemeteries 113 1986 CARR 174-175
Cemetery   Reuse Of A Grave 190 1989 NARR 303-304
Cemetery   Reuse of Vacated Grave   1960 RR 132-135
Cemetery   Selling Part Of The Cemetery     RRT 128-135
Cemetery   Selling Portion Of A Cemetery 200 1991 NARR 319-322
Cemetery   Synagogue Near Cemetery     RRR 041-047
Cemetery   Tombstone Mandatory or Not      NRR 147-151
Cemetery   Vandalized Cemetery     MRR 224-227
Cemetery   Vandalized Cemetery 115 1974 ARR 371-373
Cemetery   Widower's Rights [To Prevent A Grave From Being Moved] 88 1985 CARR 147-148
Cemetery   Yews In A Cemetery 203 1988 NARR 326
Chevra Kadisha   Formation Of A Hevra Kadisha 8 1993-4 TFN 5754.8 087-090
Chevra Kadisha   Not Using Synagogue's Chevra Kadisha     NRR 114-116
Cremation Cremation Cremation Ashes in Temple Cornerstone     RRT 167-169
Cremation Cremation Cremation From The Jewish Standpoint 100 1891 ARR 341-348
Cremation Cremation Family Disagreement Over  Cremation     CoRR 228-231
Cremation Cremation When A Parent Requests Cremation 2 2005-6 NYP 5766.2
Death   Body Lost at Sea   1960 RR 147-150
Death   Caesarean Section on a Dead Woman     CoRR 212-216
Death   Caesarean Section on a Dead Woman   1960 RR 213-214
Death   Caesarean Section on a Dying Woman   1960 RR 214-217
Death   Caeserean Section on a Dead Woman 80 1972 ARR 274-276
Death   Clothes and Shoes of the Dead   1960 RR 293-297
Death   Determination of Death     MRR 188-197
Death   Donation of Body to Science     MRR 278-280
Death   Freezing of Body For Later Burial      NRR 100-104
Death   Giving Away Shoes of the Dead   1960 RR 174-176
Death   Informing Daughter Of Her Mother's Death 1 1992-3 TFN 5753.1 199-200
Death   Lost Body Later Found      NRR 142-146
Death   Ownership of the Body of the Dead     NRR 079-084
Death   Photographing the Dead     RRT 169-171
Death   Removing of the Dead on Shabbat     RRT 163-166
Dying   Choosing Which Patient To Save 75 1968 ARR 246-254
Dying   Dying Patient Informed of Condition   1960 RR 122-125
Dying   Dying Patient Kept Alive   1960 RR 117-122
Dying   Dying Patient Requests No Funeral, No Mourning      RRR 110-113
Dying   Hospice      NRR 067-071
Dying   Hospital chapel  29 1967 ARR 078-079
Dying   Hospital Patient Beyond Recovery    1989-90 TFN 5750.5 365-369
Dying   informing a Dying Patient 158 1988 NARR 262-263
Dying   Naming a Dying Baby 116 1991 NARR 183-184
Dying   Physician Keeping Truth From Patient 74 1954 ARR 245-246
Dying   Relieving Pain of a Dying Patient 76 1975 ARR 253-257
Dying   Relieving Pain of a Dying Patient     RRR 084-089
Dying   Status of Dying Infant     MRR 223-225
Dying   Testing Emergency Medical Procedures Without the Consent of the Patient   1994-5 TFN 5755.11 381-390
Funeral Non-Jewish Communal Memorial Services in Christian Cemetery   1960 RR 143-146
Funeral Non-Jewish Funeral Of A Child Of A Mixed Marriage 7 1990-1 TFN 5751.7 267-269
Funeral Non-Jewish Funeral Of Non-Jewish Spouse Of A Member 181 1989 NARR 293-294
Funeral Non-Jewish Jewish Funeral For Non-Jewish Spouse 99 1983 CARR 160
Funeral Non-Jewish Masonic Service At Funeral 91 1946 ARR 308-309
Funeral Non-Jewish Rabbi officiating at a funeral of Jew in non-Jewish cemetery 93 1947 ARR 312-314
Funeral Non-Jewish Rabbi Officiating At Christian Scientist's Funeral 94 1909 ARR 314-317
Funeral Non-Jewish Rabbi participating in Christian Funeral     CuRR 175-178
Funeral Suicide A Eulogy For A Suicide 90 1980 ARR 306-307
Funeral   A Long-Delayed Funeral 87 1909 CARR 146-147
Funeral   Congregational Charge for Funeral   1975 CoRR 193-196
Funeral   Congregational Charge for Funeral     RRR 138-141
Funeral   Covering the Casket     NRR 152-157
Funeral   Family Dispute Over Funeral Expenses     TRR 079-081
Funeral   Funeral For Those Lost At Sea      RRR 104-107
Funeral   Funeral From Temple     RRT 095-099
Funeral   Funeral Halted at Synagogue     RRT 182-186
Funeral   Funeral Interrupting a Wedding      TRR 103-107
Funeral   Funeral On Tu Bish'vat 165 1989 NARR 275-276
Funeral   Funeral On Yom Hasho'ah 166 1989 NARR 276
Funeral   Funeral Rites of Fraternal Orders 92 1954 ARR 309-312
Funeral   Funeral Service in Synagogue Without Body      MRR 274-276
Funeral   Funeral Service in the Sanctuary     NYP 5769.5
Funeral   Funeral Service Without Family Members      MRR 276-277
Funeral   Funeral Services For Ex-members of Congregation      CoRR 200-204
Funeral   Funeral Without Rabbi Or Cantor 90 1986 CARR 150-151
Funeral   Funeral/Burial at Night     RRT 158-162
Funeral   Halting Seven Times at the Funeral     TRR 044-046
Funeral   Omission Of Committal Service     RRT 148-153
Funeral   Omission Of Committal Service 87 1976 ARR 296-299
Funeral   Post-funeral Eulogy     NRR 119-124
Funeral   Rented Hearse     RRT 122-128
Funeral   Request to Omit the Funeral Service      NYP 5770.6
Funeral   Washing Hands After Funeral     RRT 293-295
Funeral   Women as pall bearers      TRR 077-079
Funeral Director   Competeing Non-Jewish Undertaker      NRR 164-167
Funeral Director   Jewish Funeral Directors 167 1990 NARR 277-278
Funeral Director   Undertaking Business      NRR 158-163
Kaddish Non-Jewish A Proselyte Reciting Kaddish for Deceased Parents 123 1955 ARR 387-390
Kaddish Non-Jewish Kaddish For A Unitarian Sister 124 1957 ARR 390-392
Kaddish Non-Jewish Kaddish For Adoptive And Biological Parents 12 1992-3 TFN 5753.12 201-207
Kaddish   Hiring Someone to Say Kaddish     CuRR 180-181
Kaddish   Incest And Parental Responsibilities 123 1984 CARR 185-186
Kaddish   Kaddish 118 1980 ARR 377-379
Kaddish   Kaddish For A Known Criminal 146 1983 CARR 218-219
Kaddish   Kaddish For A Pet 124 1984 CARR 186-188
Kaddish   Kaddish When Praying Alone      RRR 014-018
Kaddish   Kaddish and Distinctions Between the Dead 122 1914 ARR 386-387
Kaddish   Length of Time For Recital of Kaddish 121 1913 ARR 383-385
Kaddish   Omitting Kaddisha at the Burial      TRR 099-102
Kaddish   Reciting Kaddish For Convicted Criminal 122 1981 CARR 184-185
Kaddish   Redemption Of Captives (Pidyon Shevuyim) 5 1992-3 TFN 5753.5 321-326
Kaddish   Standing During Recital Of Kaddish 120 1914 ARR 380-383
Kaddish   Titles On A Kaddish List 119 1979 ARR 379-380
Mourning Non-Jewish Mourning For A Non-Jewish Spouse 121 1986 CARR 182-184
Mourning   Bar Mitzvah During the Mourning Period 159 1984 CARR 239-240
Mourning   Comforting the Bereaved on Shabbat     NRR 130-132
Mourning   Covering of Mirrors   1960 RR 179-182
Mourning   Dates of Mourning in Different Time Zones      MRR 243-248
Mourning   Incense For Mourning 180 1991 NARR 292-293
Mourning   Mourning customs 117 1913 ARR 374-376
Mourning   Not Taking Dishes From House of Mourning   1960 RR 178-179
Mourning   Visiting the Mourners     NRR 133-138
Remembrance Non-Jewish Christian Relatives Memorialized     MRR 226-229
Remembrance Non-Jewish Gentile Names On A Yahrzeit List 7 1994-5 TFN 5755.7 049
Remembrance Non-Jewish Kaddish for Born Non-Jew      RRR 132-138
Remembrance Non-Jewish Yahrzeit For A Non-Jew 207 1989 NARR 331-332
Remembrance   Changing Names on Memorial Window     MRR 138-143
Remembrance   Dates of Death     RRR 148-149
Remembrance   Educational Value Of Yahrtzeit 126 1914 ARR 392-393
Remembrance   Father's Hebrew Name Forgotten For Memorial   1974 CoRR 032-037
Remembrance   Hebrew Yahrzeit Dates 209 1988 NARR 333-334
Remembrance   Kaddish for Apostate     RRR 132-138
Remembrance   Kaddish for First Wife   1960 RR 162-165
Remembrance   Leap Year Yahrzeit Observance 127 1984 CARR 190-191
Remembrance   Living Will  156 1989 NARR 254-259
Remembrance   May A Congregation Cease Reading The Names 18 1992-3 TFN 5753.18 043-048
Remembrance   Memorial Candles on Yom Kippur     CuRR 014-018
Remembrance   Memorial Gifts  145 1978 CARR 217-218
Remembrance   Memorial Lights At Home      CuRR 129-132
Remembrance   Memorial Lights/Tablets on Yom Kippur 180 1979 CARR 270
Remembrance   Mourning For the Cremated      NRR 139-141
Remembrance   Moving Date Of Yahrzeit 128 1984 CARR 191
Remembrance   Observance of Yahrtzeit, Not on the Exact Date     TRR 067-070
Remembrance   Observance Of Yahrzeit by a Widow Who Has Remarried 128 1955 ARR 395-396
Remembrance   Reading of Memorial List on Shabbat      CuRR 178-180
Remembrance   Secular Date for Yahrzeit   1960 RR 168-173
Remembrance   Three Steps Backward For Kaddish     RRR 217-219
Remembrance   Titles in Memorial List     NRR 041-045
Remembrance   Transfer Of Memorial Plaque To Another Synagogue 10 1990-1 TFN 5751.10 017-018
Remembrance   Two Yahrzeit Candles 126 1985 CARR 189-190
Remembrance   Visiting Another Grave   1960 RR 176-177
Remembrance   Visiting Another Grave After Funeral     RRT 187-190
Remembrance   Visiting the Cemetery Before Thrity days     RRT 109-112
Remembrance   Walking on Graves     TRR 052-054
Remembrance   When to Visit the Cemetery     CoRR 232-235
Remembrance   Whether to Shorten Memorial List     MRR 024-031
Remembrance   Who Is To Light Yahrzeit Candle 205 1989 NARR 328-329
Remembrance   Yahrtzeit For a Child   1960 RR 165-168
Remembrance   Yahrzeit 127 1980 ARR 393-395
Remembrance   Yahrzeit Bonfire 208 1989 NARR 332-333
Remembrance   Yahrzeit Date, Unknown, For A Holocaust Victim 206 1990 NARR 330-331
Remembrance   Yahrzeit For A Brother 125 1985 CARR 188-189
Remembrance   Yizkor During First Year   1960 RR 177-178
Shemot   Burial Of a Sefer Torah 109 1985 CARR 170-171
Shemot   Burial Of Human Skin From Holocaust Victim 107 1984 CARR 169
Shemot   Burial Of Old Bibles And Prayerbooks 108 1978 CARR 169-170
Shemot   Burning of Old Prayer Books   1960 RR 071-074
Shemot   Ceremony For Burial Of Books 194 1990 NARR 309-310
Shemot   Concern About Shredding Photocopied Services Containing the Name of God     NARR 231-233
Shemot   destroying      CuRR 029-033
Shemot   Proper Disposal Of A Worn Sefer Torah 4 1996-7 NYP 5757.4
Shemot   Proper Disposal of Religious Texts    2001-02 5762.1
Shemot   Proper Disposal Of Religious Texts    2001-2 NYP 5762.1
Shiv'ah Non-Jewish Gentiles And Jewish Mourning Rites 4 1999-2000 NYP 5760.4
Shiv'ah   Hol HaMo'ed Sukkot and Pessah      CuRR 224-225
Shiv'ah   Shiv'ah and Quarreling Family     RRT 136-142
Shiv'ah   Shivah for a Delayed Funeral 119 1984 CARR 180-181
Shiv'ah   Shiv'ah For Apostate      CuRR 181-183
Shiv'ah   Shiv'ah In Jerusalem      NRR 125-129
Soul   Genetic Engineering 20 1978 CARR 032-034
Suicide Suicide Confidentiality and Threatened Suicide   1989-90 TFN 5750.3 283-288
Suicide Suicide Dissuading a Would-be Suicide     CoRR 253-259
Suicide Suicide Huntington's Disease and Suicide 81 1983 CARR 135-136
Tahara   Body Parts Mixed Before  Burial     TRR 084-087
Tahara   Brit Milah for Dead Child   1960 RR 096-099
Tahara   Burial in Israel Without Talit     NRR 105-108
Tahara   Extra Shroud For Kohein      CoRR 276-278
Tahara   Linen Shrouds Or A Garment 168 1989 NARR 278-279
Tahara   Purification of Dead Body and Dressing in Shroud Done on Shabbat   1960 RR 026-029
Tahara   Refusing to Handle Infectious Body     CoRR 181-184
Tahara   Shoes for the Dead     RRR 149-153
Tahara   Taharah and AIDS 169 1988 NARR 279-281
Tahara   Tallit for the dead and cremation      MRR 269-274
Tombstone Cremation A Tombstone For Scattered Ashes 193 1990 NARR 307-309
Tombstone   Argument Over A Tombstone 7 1995-6 NYP 5756.7
Tombstone   Colored Tombstone 184 1990 NARR 297
Tombstone   Exchanging Of A Tombstone 113 1970 ARR 365-367
Tombstone   Exchanging of a Tombstone - See ARR 365-367     CoRR 236-239
Tombstone   Fallen Gravestones 115 1985 CARR 176-177
Tombstone   Inscription Of Widow's Name On First Husband's Tombstone 188 1988 NARR 300-301
Tombstone   Insignia On A Tombstone 110 1980 ARR 360-361
Tombstone   Isaiah Verse On A Tombstone 187 1989 NARR 299-300
Tombstone   Lapse Of Time Before Setting A Tombstone 108 1932 ARR 358-359
Tombstone   Location Of A Tombstone 182 1990 NARR 294-295
Tombstone   Metal Tombstone 185 1989 NARR 298
Tombstone   Mother's Name On Son's Tombstone 114 1976 ARR 367-371
Tombstone   Name Missing on Tombstone     RRR 107-109
Tombstone   Name Of The Deceased On Two Tombstones 120 1986 CARR 181-182
Tombstone   Names On A Tombstone 116 1985 CARR 177-178
Tombstone   Pebble on Tombstone     RRT 291-293
Tombstone   QR Codes Embedded In Tombstones   2012-13  5773.4
Tombstone   Setting Of A Tombstone 114 1979 CARR 175-176
Tombstone   Sh'ma As A Tombstone Inscription 117 1983 CARR 178
Tombstone   The Setting Of A Tombstone 109 1979 ARR 359-360
Tombstone   Tombstone For Polish Family Graves 202 1990 NARR 325
Tombstone   Tombstone in absence of body (cenotaph) 112 1964 ARR 362-365
Tombstone   Tombstone with Christian Markings 118 1988 CARR 179-180
Tombstone   Uniformity of Tombstone   1960 RR 154-157
Tombstone   Unmarked Tombstone 186 1989 NARR 298-299
Tombstone   When to Set Tombstone     TRR 117-119
Tombstone   Wooden Tombstone 183 1990 NARR 296
Transplant   Banks For Human Organs 78 1986 CARR 128-132
Transplant   Bequeathing Parts of Body     CoRR 216-223
Transplant   Donation of Body to Science   1960 RR 130-131
Transplant   Hastening The Death Of A Potential Organ Donor 3 2002-3 NYP 5763.3
Transplant   Live Liver Transplantation    2002-3 NYP 5763.2
Transplant   Selling a Human Kidney for Transplant 79 1986 CARR 132-133
Transplant   Selling Human Blood for Medical Purposes 80 1985 CARR 133-135
Transplant   Surgical Transplants 86 1968 ARR 291-296
Transplant   The Use of the Cornea of the Dead 85 1956 ARR 288-291
Transplant   Transplantation of Kidneys      NRR 062-066
Transplant   Transplanting the Eyes of Deceased Persons 84 1953 ARR 287-288
Transplant   Using The Blood Of The Dead 83 1967 ARR 284-287
           
ARR American Reform Responsa A compendium of the responsa of the CCAR Responsa Committee as printed in the yearbooks of the CCAR, 1890-1982, including several "private" responsa written by Rabbi Jacob. linked 1983 Walter Jacob, ed
CARR Contemporary American Reform Responsa A follow-up to ARR linked 1987 Walter Jacob, ed.
RR Reform Responsa   not linked 1960 Solomon Freehof
RRR Recent Reform Responsa   not linked 1963 Solomon Freehof
CuRR Current Reform Responsa   not linked 1969 Solomon Freehof
MRR Modern Reform Responsa   not linked 1971 Solomon Freehof
CoRR Contemporary Reform Responsa   not linked 1974 Solomon Freehof
RRT Reform Responsa for our Time   not linked 1977 Solomon Freehof
NRR New Reform Responsa   not linked 1980 Solomon Freehof
TRR Today's Reform Responsa   not linked 1990 Solomon Freehof
NARR New American Reform Responsa   linked 1992 Walter Jacob
TFN Teshuvot for the 1990's   linked 1997 W. Gunther Plaut and Mark Washofsky
HAL HAL - Halakhah   not linked   Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah
JRJ Journal of Reform Judaism  (see CCARJ) not linked    
CCARJ CCARJ - CCAR Journal (publication of the CCAR since 1953 Was titled Journal of Reform Judaism [or JRJ] from Spring 1978 to Spring 1991. not linked    
NYP Not Yet Printed responsa published by the Responsa Committee, but not yet in bound collections linked    

 

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