[Avodah] Women at a funeral

[Zev Sero]

Prof. Aryeh A. Frimer wrote:
>  R. Zev Sero's distinction between women at a funeral and women at the 
> cemetary is well taken and is undoubtedly correct in theory.  However, 
> since most funerals in Israel and around the world take place at the 
> Beit haKevarot - wouldn't that make this distinction nigh irrelevant or 
> moot?

Do they?  I don't know about the rest of Israel, but every announcement
I've seen for funerals in J'm has it take place at a place called Shamgar.
I've only ever been to funerals in Melbourne and NY.  In NY funerals take
place at the various chevra kadisha shtiblach; in Melbourne it depends
which of the two chevros it's with, but even with the city CK, the
funeral is in a chapel just inside the entrance to the cemetery, and I've
never ever seen a funeral there with no women, so I assume people don't
consider it to be part of the "beit hakvarot" proper, which would be the
site of the actual grave.

Is it so different in most places?

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