The Kavod v’Nichum Information & Training (KNIT) Resource Center threads together the wealth of resources available to the Chevra Kadisha movement on issues related to Jewish practices in dying, death, and mourning. The KNIT Center identifies and organizes written, visual, and people resources and helps make them available for use to leaders, Chevra Kadisha groups and Jewish communities at large. It also identifies gaps in resources and attempts to fill them. Its goal is to help knit the movement together to produce a whole cloth of Kavod Hamet (honoring the dead) and Nichum Aveilim (comforting the mourners).

• Index of overview articles:
  • Chevra Kadisha
  • Tahara stories
  • Tahara Manuals
  • Infection control
  • Organ donation
  • Suicide – Jewish Views, Assisted, Prevention
  • Cremation
  • Cemetery and Burial Issues
  • Stones on monuments
  • Burial of Sacred Writing
  • Non-Jewish Burial
  • Yahrzeit
  • Conservative Responsa
  • Reform Responsa
  • Non-profit funeral homes
  • Inter-faith issues
  • Viddui – Jewish confessional
  • Coroner and autopsy issues for Chevra Kadisha
  • Chevra health and safety issues
  • Chevra Kadisha and circumcision
  • Tahara supplies list
  • Funeral home guidelines and recommended list of equipment

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