The bones found inside the ossuaries will be turned over to the Ministry of Religious Affairs for burial, according to the authority. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.

A French court has ruled that the request of French-Jewish writer Paul-Loup Sulitzer to be buried in a Jewish burial must be respected, despite the objection of his eldest daughter, who planned to ...

The court rejected the appeal, nullified the will, and ruled that the woman must be buried in Israel in accordance with Jewish burial customs. The Attorney General’s Office was also ordered to ...