ON a cold wintry New England Day - I think it was President's Day -, a funeral was conducted in the YI of West Hartford for its former president.<br><br>In oure relatively small community there were numerous Kohanim. In order to keep the Kohanim from having to suffer outside in the cold, the niftar had given a tzivuy to leave HIM in his casket in the hearse outside - so as to permit the Kohanim to come INSIDE for the hespeidim. And AFAIK no Kohanim precede to the cemetery
<br><br>=======================================================================<br><br>I conducted a funeral for a bas Kohen a few months ago. Her great nephews all came and stood outside of the funeral home and drove along to the burial in Trenton, NJ. But AFAIK the Kohanim made no attempt to go inside the fence of the beis olam.
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