Misaskim received a phone call on its hotline from an individual who was calling in about a mes mitzvah situation. In fact, the niftar was already at a funeral establishment in Baltimore to be cremated. The caller identified the niftar as his coworker�s father who recently passed on. Unfortunately, the co-worker has not been in contact with her father and opted to for a cremation upon learning about his death. She chose to spread his ashes over the burial plot that her father had purchased in Saddlebrook, NJ.

Misaskim contacted the niftar�s daughter and she agreed to allow Misaskim to step in and provide her father with a Jewish burial. Misaskim volunteers worked to release the niftar from the funeral establishment in Baltimore.

PLEASE NOTE: This story has been updated due to an incorrect piece of information which was published in error.

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