Comparison Shopping My Way to Eternal Rest

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Between huge bites of a lox-and-cream-cheese-slathered bagel — essential cuisine served to visitors paying shiva, a Jewish condolence call — my cousin was woeful when he blurted out: “How could we bury Aunt Bronka 100 miles from her brothers’ graves? We should dig up her body and move it to New Jersey.” Read More…

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