From Life to Life: Death and Mourning in The Jewish Tradition
Purchase $55.00 - Rental $14.00
This is a sensitive documentary, handled with care and feeling. Guided by Torah law, the video depicts the preparation for burial, the simple pine coffin, the muslin shroud, the ritual of Taharah, the burial, sitting shiva, and the need for a tombstone. It is a realistic and illustrative undertaking with strong human interest. The explanations of Rabbi Rokeach and Rabbi Chait are lucid and absorbing.

Jewish Death and Mourning
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The experience, wisdom, and dignity of Rabbi Maurice Lamm are presented in a unique video about a subject most persons have difficulty in understanding. The changes for the deceased and the mourners are traced simply and meaningfully.

Plain Pine Box
Purchase $50.00 - Rental $14.00
This is an outstanding description of the Chevra Kadisha. The video follows the steps in preparing the body for burial as well as the humanizing aspects of Judaism in its respect for the living and for the deceased. "Plain Pine Box" follows the Conservative Jewish practice of Taharah (Preparation of the body for burial).

The Street
Purchase $29.95 - Rental $14.00
The way children view death is often with ambivalence and lack of understanding of the finality of this state. Mordecai Richler's story about his grandmother's death is somewhat irreverent but deeply moving. "The Street" makes a frank statement about the ways children and families respond to death, in an award winning animated documentary.

All videos are $19.95 each unless otherwise noted.