Cremation


Resolution Adopted by the CCAR

CREMATION

Digests of resolutions adopted by the

Central Conference of American Rabbis

between 1889 and 1974

1. Resolved, That in case we should be invited to officiate as Ministers of

Religion

at the cremation of a departed co-religionist, we ought not to refuse on the

plea

that cremation is anti-Jewish or irreligious. (1893, p. 41)