New Jersey Shiva Center

Shiva.com is the resource for Jewish mourning and shiva, focused on providing qualified information together with resources for planning and sending to a shiva.

Find information and access to help learn, plan and send regarding shiva and Jewish mourning. Shiva.com is the resource, whether you are seeking information about what to do, how to plan and coordinate a shiva, or to send sympathy gifts, baskets and more to anyone in New Jersey observing shiva and other mourning practices.

Expressing Condolences

Making a shiva call or sending a mourner sympathy food and other items is an appropriate way to show your support during a Jewish shiva. The New Jersey Shiva Center helps make it easier and more efficient for you to coordinate and send condolence baskets to a shiva home. Here you can select from gourmet chocolates to fresh local deli, hand-delivered.

What to Send

Sending shiva baskets and food are a traditional way to express condolences and helps reduce the burden on mourners. Friends and family who want to help can send food and meals for the mourning family the week following a death and even later, depending on the circumstances. Appropriate items include baked goods, fruit, nuts, chocolate or traditional deli food.

Looking for food for a shiva home in New Jersey?

You can send or cater traditional delicatessen foods, trays and platters from local New Jersey delis to support loved ones, friends and colleagues during a shiva. Your order will be hand delivered by one of shiva.com's Approved Providers located in New Jersey that understands shiva and sympathy catering. For same or next day delivery, browse the Local Options below.

Additional Ways to Help

Generally, the physical needs of mourners should be provided for, as mourners typically do not leave their homes during the shiva period. These needs may include food preparation, picking up medicines from the pharmacy or driving children to school. The shiva coordinator, as well as other friends and family, can arrange for many of the mourners' needs.

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