For the grieving, advice aplenty: Bereavement rituals discussed. 11/02/2007 More than 125 people - rabbis, social workers, lay leaders and mourners - came to the conference, which was organized by Plaza Jewish Community Chapel in Manhattan, the only nonprofit, community-owned Jewish funeral home in the tri-state area. Read More...
	“A Life Beyond This One” By Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein Central Synagogue, New York City 10/27/2007 Plaza Jewish Community Chapel (PJCC), in it's ongong mission to be a service to the Jewish Community, is creating a new web site called Rabbi Commentary. This educational tool, which is expected to launch on November 21st, 2007 will feature bereavement related commentaries written by Rabbis from around the world. We are proud to give you a sampling of this commentary, written by Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein, of Central Synagogue, New York City Read More...
	Religion on the Line 07/08/07 Join Rabbi Joseph Potasnik and Deacon Kevin McCormack as they interview Plaza Jewish Community Chapel's own Stephanie Garry and Andrew Fier on Talk Radio 77 WABC's longest running radio show: Religion on the Line. Click here to listen now.
	The Journal News 06/19/07 A new life was something Stephanie Garry was searching for after the former full-time actress had difficulty finding work after her union went on strike in 2000. "After walking a picket line for six months, it was very hard to get my career jump-started again," the Chappaqua resident says. So Garry, 53, revamped her resume, incorporating skills she gained volunteering at her Bedford Corners synagogue and the Chappaqua PTA, and submitted it to the UJA-Federation of New York, a Jewish social-service organization. That proposal led to a job offer at Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, a nonprofit funeral home on Manhattan's Upper West Side....... Read More...
	Mourning Online 04/27/2007 A few dozen friends of an eldery Jewish woman who died in February were not able to come to her funeral service at the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel on the Upper West Side, but they joined the mourners, virtually, via the Internet. In cities across the United States and Europe, were the first people to take part in a new service: funerals carried live, or archived, on the Internet's broadcasting, aka "streaming," technology. Read More...
	Reprinted with permission from The New York Times. 08/07/2003 In some people's minds, there is not much difference between funeral home directors and used-car salesmen. "Funeral services have always gotten a bad rap," Charles S. Salomon, the funeral director at Riverside Memorial Chapel in Manhattan, said with a sigh. "Nobody wants to be involved in funerals. No one wants to talk about them. People don't want to be here." But at least one funeral home, Plaza Jewish Community Chapel in Manhattan, actually has some fans...... Read More...