The Jewish community, among the oldest ethnoreligious groups in the world, has demonstrated great cultural resilience. Some Jewish groups have retained traditions and customs from as far back as 500 BCE, despite pressure to assimilate. Bereavement practices in particular reveal how people experience the universality of death and what they value, manifested in how they comfort the living and honor the dead. We reviewed Judaic death practices worldwide and throughout history. To consider the multiple schools of thought among Jewish scholars, we conducted two interviews and a literature review of 35 sources. We classified Judaic death practices by their conventionality (custom or tradition) and rituality (incorporating a ritual or not), noting inconsistencies spatiotemporally and ethnoreligiously. The spatiotemporal dimension traces death practices from ancient Israel to modern America, while the ethnoreligious dimension spans the Jewish diaspora. We intend to perform an ordination analysis, specifically a canonical correspondence analysis, to statistically and visually compare these practices. We speculate that a Jewish group less similar in their death practices to other Jewish groups was more culturally assimilated. Our hope is to extend this research into a study of how assimilation influences the adoption or change of death practices across time, space, ethnicity, and religion. If death practices are a metric of ethnic assimilation, they might be a valuable indicator of cultural extinction. On a local scale, death practices can educate us about the origins of the Jewish population in Lubbock, providing historical insight into a relatively unexamined yet influential people.