Photos: Joan Rivers farewelled in New York

Joan Rivers’s directions for her own funeral service were printed in the program the ushers handed out on Sunday at Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. “I want my funeral to be a big showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action,” the paragraph-long directive said. “I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way. I don’t want some rabbi rambling on.”
More than an hour of tributes and reminiscences followed from friends who occasionally found themselves turning to Rabbi Davidson, the synagogue’s senior rabbi, as if to say not “Can we talk?” — one of the phrases Ms. Rivers made famous — but “Can we talk like that here?” after uttering language not usually heard in a place of worship. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage An Appraisal: Joan Rivers Could Never Stop WorkingSEPT. 4, 2014 Joan Rivers, a Comic Stiletto Quick to Skewer, Is Dead at 81SEPT. 4, 2014 On the Runway Blog: Memories of Joan Rivers at New York Fashion WeekSEPT. 7, 2014 On the Runway Blog: One Last Appearance at Fashion Week for Joan RiversSEPT. 7, 2014 “Sorry, rabbi,” the columnist Cindy Adams said. She was not the only one who looked his way.