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Rt Revd Rob Wickham
March 27, 2018, 3:45 pm
Senior Christian leader backs Jewish concerns over ‘cab rank’ burial policy
Rt Revd Rob Wickham criticised coroner Mary Hassell's controversial policy, in which she refuses to prioritise religious burials
By Jewish News Reporter
Imaging of the brain on mri scan
March 5, 2018, 3:01 pm
Jewish leaders urge CT scans to become ‘more financially accessible’
Councillors asked to help ease the burden after it emerges that Orthodox burial societies are paying up to £90,000 a year for scans
By Jewish News Reporter
Mary Hassell Credit: Faith Matters
February 7, 2018, 4:09 pm
PM appears to back community’s concerns over coroner Mary Hassell at PMQs
Theresa May says it's 'important to take into account specific requirements' of religious groups when they're mourning
By Jewish News Reporter
Worker walks at the construction site of a massive underground cemetery in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
November 17, 2017, 11:08 am
Jerusalem cemetery goes deep underground with tunnel burials
Tunnels stretching more than half mile in length beneath Jerusalem's main cemetery have been carefully excavated over the past two years to make room for some 22,000 graves - enough space to meet the city's needs for the next decade.
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (at the front) marking the opening of the site
May 22, 2017, 3:39 pm
Chief Rabbi opens new £8m cemetery in Bushey
Opening of multi-million-pound site which holds thousands of plots is heralded as a 'milestone' for the community
By Jewish News Reporter
An old Jewish headstone in a cemetery
December 1, 2016, 11:05 am
Judge refuses plea for Israel reburial
A widow’s long campaign to have her husband’s remains exhumed and reburied in Israel has been thwarted by a top judge
By Jewish News Reporter
An old Jewish headstone in a cemetery
October 6, 2016, 11:19 am
Reassurances over non-Jewish burial plots near cemetery
The Federation Synagogue told families of Jews buried at Rainham Cemetery that the land 'remains and will remain' under their ownership
By Stephen Oryszczuk
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