(RNS1-APR28) Rabbi Shmuel Plafker, left, of the Hebrew Free Burial Association recites blessings on the pine coffin of Leonard Horowitz at the Mount Richmond Cemetery on Staten Island, N.Y. Plafker’s group paid for the funeral when Horowitz died without any money or survivors. Plafker said requests for the group’s services are up even as the economic downturn impacts donations and investments. For use with RNS-ECON-FUNERALS, transmitted April 28, 2009. Religion News Service photo by Nicole Neroulias.
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(RNS1-APR28) Rabbi Shmuel Plafker, left, of the Hebrew Free Burial Association recites blessings on the pine coffin of Leonard Horowitz at the Mount Richmond Cemetery on Staten Island, N.Y. Plafker’s group paid for the funeral when Horowitz died without any money or survivors. Plafker said requests for the group’s services are up even as the economic downturn impacts donations and investments. For use with RNS-ECON-FUNERALS, transmitted April 28, 2009. Religion News Service photo by Nicole Neroulias.
RNS ECON FUNERALS
(RNS1-APR28) Rabbi Shmuel Plafker, left, of the Hebrew Free Burial Association recites blessings on the pine coffin of Leonard Horowitz at the Mount Richmond Cemetery on Staten Island, N.Y. Plafker’s group paid for the funeral when Horowitz died without any money or survivors. Plafker said requests for the group’s services are up even as the economic downturn impacts donations and investments. For use with RNS-ECON-FUNERALS, transmitted April 28, 2009. Religion News Service photo by Nicole Neroulias.
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