Jewish Veteran Funeral Services

Jewish Veteran Services

AM Israel Mortuary wants the story of every veteran's life to be shared and celebrated. We take pride in honoring veterans and think of it as our way of saying thanks for their service.

We are dedicated to offering exceptional Jewish Veteran services. Our staff helps you complete the steps and paperwork needed for military burial benefits.

What is a Jewish Veteran Service?

A Jewish veteran service is a funeral service held in honor of a loved one who is a retired veteran, someone who passed on while in action, or a veteran discharged from the force honorably. In most cases, these funeral services differ from each other depending on the family’s needs, and this is what you need to know about them.


Upon death, the veteran is eligible to get Jewish military death benefits. If he or she wrote all his or her wishes before passing on, the family has to honor these wishes. If he or she hadn’t written any, the family could decide how to give their loved one an honorable send-off.


The family can choose to bury the veteran in uniform, bury their loved one in a Jewish cemetery, or a national or state military cemetery. Although Jewish customs demand families bury the deceased on the day of death or the day after, families can delay the burial until they are ready.



During military funeral services, the deceased will receive veteran funeral honors, including an honor guard, flag representation to the next of kin, and tap playing by a bugler. After this, the rabbi will take over the meeting and conduct it while observing strict Jewish customs and depending on the family’s wishes.

Military Death Benefits

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Starting on July 7, 2014 Veterans Affairs (VA) changed its burial benefit regulations that allows eligible family members to be paid quickly and efficiently. The new regulations allow VA to automate payment for burial benefits given to eligible surviving spouses. Previously, Veterans Affairs paid for burial benefits on a reimbursement basis which required receipts to be sent for fairly small one-time payments.

Veterans Affairs will pay up to $2,000 for burial expenses for military service-related deaths. The costs of transporting the deceased may partly or fully covered if the veteran is buried in a VA national cemetery.
Veterans Affairs will pay up to $749 for burial expenses for non-service connected deaths if the veteran has been hospitalized by VA at the time of death. If the veteran has not been hospitalized by VA at the time of death, then families can receive up to $300 in coverage for burial and funeral expenses and a $749 plot-interment allowance (if not buried in a national cemetery).

Click here to visit a web page from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that provides more in-depth information on military death benefits, the application process, and the eligibility requirements.

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