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The Temple of Israel is an historic former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 8 1 ⁄ 2 Mohawk Place in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York, in the United States. Rededicated as Templo Esperanza de Israel, the building has been used as a church since 2008.
The Riverside Memorial Chapel is an American Jewish funeral home chain with their main facility at 180 West 76th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. [1] The company has been owned by Service Corporation International since 1971.
Brooklyn and Queens: Cypress Hills: 1851 No Yes [4] First Shearith Israel Graveyard: Manhattan: Two Bridges: 1682 1833 – [5] [6] Linden Hill Jewish Cemetery: Queens: Ridgewood: 1875 No — Machpelah Cemetery: Queens: Ridgewood: 1855 1980 – [7] Maimonides Cemetery: Brooklyn: Cypress Hills: 1853 1900 — Mokom Sholom Cemetery: Queens: Ozone ...
The Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, sometimes shortened to "the J" or "the JCH", [1] [2] was incorporated in 1927 and has helped over one million Jews in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. [3] The JCH initially served as a community center for Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their children.
It is located in the city's Cemetery Belt, bisected by the border between Brooklyn and Queens. It is a rural cemetery in style, and was started in 1851 by three Manhattan Jewish congregations: Congregation Shearith Israel (Spanish Portuguese) on West 70th Street, B'nai Jeshurun on West 89th Street, and Temple Shaaray Tefila on East 79th Street.
As of 2010, Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom was the oldest Orthodox congregation on Long Island (including Brooklyn and Queens), and, according to Brooklyn Eagle journalist Raanan Geberer, "one of the few remnants of the non-Hasidic Jewish community that thrived in Williamsburg until the 1960s". No Conservative or Reform synagogues presently exist in ...
The Hebrew Free Burial Association (HFBA) was established in 1888 as a free burial society serving the residents of Manhattan's Lower East Side.It was incorporated as a non-profit organization with the name of Chebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth (The Society of the Brotherhood of True Charity ) [4] on January 25, 1889. [1]
Salem Fields Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located at 775 Jamaica Avenue in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, within the Cemetery Belt. It was founded in 1852 by Congregation Emanu-El of New York. Salem Fields is the final resting place for many of the prominent German-Jewish families of New York City.