Hundred of prayer shawls arrive after Hebrew Free Burial puts out call Less than 48 hours later, he had collected 150 himself and pledges of hundreds more to come from as far away as South Florida and ...

On a blustery, frigid night in January, a group of women gathered around the warm inviting fireplace in the lobby of Valley View Hospital with their knitting. Spilling over their laps from their ...

The group of women sat around a table at Broadway Court Estates Friday, crochet hooks in hand, as activities assistant Sarah Ivie dumped bags of new skeins of yarn on the table. “Oh, I like that one,” ...

JTA– Andrew Parver’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Sunday. That’s when Parver, the director of operations at the Hebrew Free Burial Association in New York City, put out a call for donations of ...

She got out her own knitting needles and yarn and got to work on another prayer shawl. “Being able to do it for someone else was a wonderful feeling,” she said. “After being a recipient, I knew how ...

"Knit three … purl three … knit three … purl three … and please, God, bless the person who will wrap this prayer shawl around them." So goes the solitary ...