Coronavirus Lifecycle Resources

If your event plans are being affected by the coronavirus, we’re here to help. We can provide you with support and guidance & connect you to rabbis and cantors who can answer your questions. Reach out to our team here.

Weddings

• “Getting Married During a Pandemic? Here’s What To Know.” 18Doors.
• “Postponing Our Wedding But Not Our Marriage”. 18Doors.
• “Planning a Wedding at Home? Here Are a Few Things to Consider.” The New York Times.
• “How to Invite Guests to a Socially Distanced Wedding.” The New York Times.
• “Livestream Your Wedding Like a Pro.” The New York Times.
• “How to Rethink Your Wedding.” The New York Times.
• “How to Mark Your Wedding Date When You’ve Had to Postpone.” ReformJudaism.org.
• Ketubah.com is offering a free re-print of your ketubah free of charge with the revised wedding date.
• Rescheduling your wedding and need to find a new officiant? Use our Jewish Clergy Officiation Referral Service.
• “On Sunday, the rabbi logged on to Zoom: A bride and groom were waiting.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
• “Finding Support After Calling Off The Wedding.” The New York Times.

Funerals, Shivas & Mourning

• “How to Host a Virtual Shiva.” 18Doors.
• Funerals & Burial in the time of COVID. Anita Diamant answers your questions.
• COVID Grief Network: If you’re in your 20s or 30s and have lost someone close due to COVID-19 or someone you love is ill, you can get free one-on-one support from a volunteer grief worker.
• Coronavirus resources from shiva.com.
• “Sitting shiva via Zoom, it turns out, has its upsides.” The Forward.
• “The Whole World is Sitting Shiva.” The Atlantic.
• “The Heartbreaking Loneliness of Mourning During a Pandemic.” Kveller.
• “Sitting Shiva Online: How Mourning The Dead Has Changed.” 90.9 WBUR.
• “We’re going to have to show up without showing up.” The Forward Editorial.
• “COVID-19 Coronavirus – Social Distancing and Jewish Mourning, shiva.” Shiva.com.
• “How to Express Condolences During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Shiva.com.
• “Jewish Death and Mourning Rituals in Philly Adjust to Epidemic.” Jewish Exponent.
• “The Resilience of Rituals.” Tablet Magazine.
• “What It Feels Like to Sit Shiva Alone.” Tablet Magazine.
• “Missing My Dad’s Yahrzeit.” Tablet Magazine.

Bar & Bat Mitzvahs

• “What It’s Like to Have a Virtual Bar Mitzvah.” JewishBoston.
• Virtual Mitzvah Planning Facebook Group.
• “Mazal Tov to those with B’nai Mitzvah Celebrations Impacted by Coronavirus.” RitualWell.

Baby Naming & Bris

• “Welcoming New Life with a Virtual Bris.” 18Doors.
• “Many Jewish parents press on with circumcision amidst outbreak – while others opt for delay.” The Forward.

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