Teshuvot (Responsa) On Death, Burial, and Mourning - Conservative Movement

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Selected Teshuvot related to death, burial, and mourning from the CJLS (Committee on Jewish Law and Standards) of the Rabbinical Assembly and the Va'ad Halakhah (Law Committee) of the Rabbinical Assembly of Israel (shown below as "Masorti").
Source	Subject	Title with Link	Reference	Year	Author
CJLS	Organ Donation	Organ Donation After Cardiac Death	YD 370:1	2010	Leonard Sharzer
CJLS	Organ Donation	Ad Heikhan Hu Bodek? -- Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death	YD 370:1	2004	Daniel S. Nevins
CJLS	Organ Donation	Organ Donation	YD 336.	1999	Joel Roth
CJLS	Organ Donation	Organ and Tissue Donation Card	YD 336	1996	Joseph Prouser
CJLS	Organ Donation	Chesed or Chiuv: The Obligation to Preserve Life and the Question of Post-Mortem Organ Donations	YD 336	1995	Joseph H. Prouser
Masorti	Organ Donation	The Donation of Bodies to Medical Schools	YD 349:1-2; 357:1		Gilah Dror
Masorti	Organ Donation	Organ Transplants and Donor Cards	YD 349:1-2; 357:1		David Golinkin

CJLS	Suicide	Suicide	YD 345:2	2005	Kassel Abelson
CJLS	Suicide	Assisted Suicide	YD 345	1997a	Elliot N. Dorff
CJLS	Suicide	Statement on Assisted Suicide	YD 345	1997b

CJLS	Tahara	I Shall Sprinkle Pure Water Upon You and You Shall Be Purified: A Question of Taharah	YD 352:3	1998	Ben Zion Bergman
Masorti	Tahara	The Tohorah Ritual	YD 352:4		David Golinkin
Masorti	Tahara	Tohorah for those who Died of AIDS	YD 352:4.		Simchah Roth

Masorti	Funeral	The Participation of Women in Funerals	YD 359	1986-7	David Golinkin
CJLS	Funeral	A Statement on Funerals in the Synagogue	YD 353:3	1983	Ben Zion Bokser

CJLS	Cremation	Cremation in the Jewish Tradition	YD 348	1986	Morris Shapiro

CJLS	Burial of Non-Jews	Burial of Non-Jewish Spouse and Children	YD 367:1	2010	Kassel Abelson and Loel Weiss
CJLS	Burial of Non-Jews	Bury Him, Yes, Bury Him - A Concurring Opinion to Paul Plotkin's "Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity"	YD 345:5	1998	Myron S. Geller
CJLS	Burial of Non-Jews	Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity	YD 345:5	1994	Paul Plotkin
CJLS	Burial of Non-Jews	Peaceful Paths: Burial of Non-Jews in a Jewish Cemetery Following a Common Disaster	YD 367:1	1994	Myron S. Geller

CJLS	Burial	A Matter of Grave Concern: A Question of Mixed Burial	YD 367:1	1991	Ben Zion Bergman
Masorti	Burial	The Burial of Non-Jews in a Jewish Cemetery	YD 367:1		David Golinkin
Masorti	Burial	Burial in a Coffin in Eretz Yisrael	YD 362:1		Pesach Schindler
Masorti	Burial	Engraving on a Gravestone a Name Which Was Added During an Illness	YD 335:10		David Golinkin

CJLS	Disinterment	Exhuming the Dead	YD 363	1996	Myron S. Geller

CJLS	Mausoleum	May a Mausoleum Be Used for Jewish Burial?	YD 362:1	1983	Morris Feldman
CJLS	Mausoleum	The Use of Mausoleums for Jewish Burial	YD 362:1	1983	David H. Lincoln
Masorti	Mausoleum	Layered Burial and Burial in Mausolea	YD 362:1		David Golinkin

CJLS	Mourning	Saying Kaddish for Twelve Months, A Valid Alternative	YD 376:4	2008	Richard Plavin and Mayer Rabinowitz
CJLS	Mourning	Welcoming Mourners on Shabbat	YD 400:1	2000	Baruch Frydman-Kohl
CJLS	Mourning	Converts Mourning the Death of Close Relatives	YD 374:5	1998	Joel Rembaum
Masorti	Mourning	Women and the Mourners' Kaddish	YD 376:4	5749	David Golinkin

CJLS	Missing Persons	Ritual of Mourning When a Body is Not Recovered	YD 375:7	2001	Kassel Abelson and Mayer Rabinowitz
CJLS	Missing Persons	On the Status of Missing Persons	YD 397	1987	Isidoro Aizenberg

CJLS	Pregnancy Loss	What Should Jewish Practice Be Following a Stillbirth?	YD 340:30	1996a	Stephanie Dickstein
CJLS	Pregnancy Loss	What's In a Name?: A Concurrence and Dissent on the Ritual Practice Following a Stillbirth	YD 340:30	1996b	Ben Zion Bergman
CJLS	Pregnancy Loss	What Should Be Jewish Practice Following the Death of an Infant Who Lives Less Than Thirty One Days?	YD 374:8	1992a	Stephanie Dickstein
CJLS	Pregnancy Loss	Kiyyam Li: A Dissenting Concurrence	YD 374:8	1992b	Avram Israel Reisner
CJLS	Pregnancy Loss	Response to Miscarriage	YD 340:30	1991a	Debra Reed Blank
CJLS	Pregnancy Loss	Response to Miscarriage: An Alternate View	YD 340:30	1991b	Amy Eilberg
CJLS	Pregnancy Loss	Mourning for a Newborn	YD 374:8	1987	Isidoro Aizenberg
CJLS	Pregnancy Loss	Treatment of the Loss of a Fetus Through Miscarriage	YD 340:30	1987	Isidoro Aizenberg

Teshuvot (Responsa) On Death, Burial, and Mourning - Conservative Movement

Selected Teshuvot related to death, burial, and mourning

from the CJLS (Committee on Jewish Law and Standards) of the Rabbinical Assembly and

the Va'ad Halakhah (Law Committee) of the Rabbinical Assembly of Israel (shown below as "Masorti").