Mar 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
“It is not your responsibility to finish the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.”—Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) The Jewish Cemetery Association of Greater Baltimore recently embarked on what you might call “a monumental mitzvah“: to catalog and...
Apr 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Baltimore, MD – Today, in conjunction with Good Deeds Day, the Jewish Cemetery Association sponsored its first community wide Shaimos burial (Old Jewish books, pages, etc.). The event took place at the Bowleys Lane Cemetery, in Rosedale, MD. Many local shuls...
Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Steve Venick, the president of the Jewish Cemetery Association of Greater Baltimore, first got involved in taking care of Jewish cemeteries at a young age, with the blessing and encouragement of his father.
Jul 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
On the Fourth of July this year, while most Baltimoreans were barbecuing with their families, vacationing at the beach or watching fireworks, Deborah R. Weiner, Eric L. Goldstein and Dianne Weiner Feldman were touring the German Hill Road Jewish Cemeteries in Dundalk....
Dec 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Just weeks ago, the Ohr Knesseth Israel Anshe Sfard Congregation Cemetery looked like a tornado had torn through it. At least 80 stones, possibly as many as 100, had been toppled over by vandals on Erev Yom Kippur (the date appears to be a coincidence). The stones,...
Mar 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
DID YOU KNOW there is an organization devoted to watching over the gravesites of our loved ones? Formed in 1998, the Jewish Cemetery Association, an arm of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, is responsible for helping to oversee 10 area...
