Tag: Metaheret

• Silent Sisters: Caring for the dead in gendered religious space

  Nuri McBride is a Metaheret, which means washing and ritually preparing the dead in the Jewish traditions, as well as assisting in funeral preparation and bereavement. As a member of  a Chevras you provide kosher body preparation, funeral services, bereavement support, and palliative care, free of charge as a community service. With women outnumbering men in Chevras…

  Death and the Maiden

  18/07/2016

  Nuri McBride

  Bereavement, Body Preparation, Burial, Burial Shrouds, Chevra, Chevra Kadisha, Community, Deadmaidens, Death, Funeral Services, Gender Roles, Grief, History, Jewish, Jewish Burial Society, Jewish Culture, Kosher Burial, Loss, Metaheret, Mikva, Support