JERUSALEM - Tens of thousands of black-clad ultra-Orthodox Jews staged mass demonstrations on Thursday to protest a Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls' school.
more...Performing Tahara, the Ultimate Kindness
Mayer Waxman
NEW YORK (JTA) -- To describe the dead body that lay before me at my first tahara, the simple word "real" seems most appropriate. A tahara is the traditional Jewish cleansing performed on a body before burial.