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cemeteries

Two headstones with candles on them, seen from above
Posted inFirst Person

A cemetery photo assignment brought me back to my grandparents

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins February 12, 2026February 12, 2026

Gan Shalom Cemetery, flanked by the rolling, manicured hills of Briones Regional Park near Martinez, is a beautiful, solemn space. I was there recently on a freelance photography assignment for […]

A rendering of the planned natural burial area at Sinai Memorial Park in Simi Valley, which will feature drought tolerant landscaping. (Image/Courtesy Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries)
Posted inUncategorized, Opinion

California Jews, enough with your green, grassy cemeteries

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward May 23, 2022
A picture shows the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Sept. 28, 2011. (Photo/JTA-Joseph Eid-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Libya’s Jewish cemeteries were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA October 12, 2021
The Hebrew Cemetery in Marysville takes up a corner of the city cemetery, located right off Highway 70. The gate is originally from a Jewish cemetery in San Francisco. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inLetters

Ben & Jerry’s, for and against; Leave Bibi alone; Caring for Jewish cemeteries; etc.

by J. Readers September 3, 2021
Mine E. Grassetti's children line up to shovel earth onto her coffin at the Sonora Hebrew Cemetery, July 8: (from left) Daniel Grassetti, Richard Grassetti, Elizabeth Grassetti and Silvia Grassetti-Kruglikov. (Photo/Union Democrat-Shelly Thorene)
Posted inNorthern California

Sonora Hebrew Cemetery hosts final burial for Holocaust survivor

by Giuseppe Ricapito July 26, 2021
The "Little Shul," located behind the main building of Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro, seen here ca. 1940, is one of many Jewish treasures travelers can visit on a trip to Gold Country. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inHistory

A road trip through Jewish Gold Country

by Gabriel Greschler November 25, 2020December 8, 2020
Members of the Wagabunda Scouts troop haul a fallen tree out of the Jewish cemetery of Nowe Miasto, Poland, Nov. 11, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Julia Bandurska)
Posted inWorld

This non-Jewish leader is working to clean up Poland’s forgotten Jewish cemeteries

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 18, 2020November 18, 2020
A new monument to Soviet Jewish soldiers who died in WWII with its supporters and funders
Posted inNews

New monument to Soviet Jewish WWII soldiers in Colma

by J. Staff October 6, 2017
A Jewish tombstone built into the side of a building in Thessaloniki, Greece (Photo/Zack Bodner)
Posted inFirst Person, Local Voice, Opinion

Repurposed or repugnant? Old Jewish tombstones find new life in Greek city

Zack Bodner by Zack Bodner July 6, 2017July 6, 2017
a man stands amid broken head stones
Posted inU.S., News

Mural urging respect to be erected next to vandalized Jewish cemetery in Philly

by JTA May 4, 2017March 19, 2018

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