Cemetery Visitation
For 5772

JCAM cemeteries are open daily from 8:00 am until dusk. The cemeteries are closed every Shabbat (Saturday) but re-open again on Sunday. JCAM owned and managed cemeteries will be closed as follows for holidays:

Rosh Hashana – Closed Sept. 29 & 30, 2011
Yom Kippur – Closed Oct. 8, 2011
Sukkot – October 13 & 14, 2011
Shemini Atzeret – October 20, 2011
Simchat Torah – October 21, 2011
Pesach – April 7, 8, 13, 14, 2012
Shavuot – May 27 & 28, 2012

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Burial of Non-Jewish Spouses
and Family Members
on Jewish Cemeteries

The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative movement), recently published a Responsa regarding the burial of non-Jewish spouses and family members on Jewish cemeteries.

The Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts has been ahead of the curve for over 10 years at its Beit Olam Cemetery in Wayland. In 1999, when the cemetery was consecrated, JCAM ensured that the burial of non-Jewish spouses and their children would be part of the religious regulations at this cemetery.

This responsa validates JCAM’s ongoing commitment to bury “non-Jewish dead and comfort their mourners so that we follow the ways of peace.”

JCAM is currently expanding the Beit Olam Cemetery with and additional 7,000 gravesites to accommodate the growing interfaith Jewish community.

To read the full 12-page Responsa, and other articles related to Interfaith families, please visit our web blog by clicking here.

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JCAM Launches Web Site
for Mystic River Jewish Community Project

Through : mysticriverjews.jcam.org, you are transported back in time to a place where life along the Mystic River towns of East Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Revere, Medford, Malden, Somerville and Winthrop was bursting with Jewish life, culture,music, and business. The JCAM Charitable Foundation brings to life the sights, sounds and stories of these early Jewish immigrant communities to educate, promote, and strengthen the ongoing work of transforming the Ohabei Shalom Chapel in East Boston into the Mystic River Jewish Community Exhibit.  (The Ohabei Shalom Chapel is located on the grounds of the first Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts, founded in 1844).

The mission of the Mystic River Jewish Community Project is to preserve the history of Jewish life in these communities. While the chapel is undergoing restoration, this Web site will serve as the repository that chronicles the story of the Mystic River Jews and will also serve as a community space for the immigrant populations who currently reside in these communities to learn how valuable lessons of the past can shape their tomorrow.

The JCAM Charitable Foundation is committed to creating a present, living connection among residents of these towns across many generations and nationalities, united by experiences in places that can create social progress and social justice in present time.

We are actively collecting information in the form of documents, photographs and oral histories that are related to these once vibrant Jewish communities. We encourage you to contribute your own materials to this project – written, visual, and aural.  Our hope is that an exciting array of material and technologies will create an ongoing engagement of people, experiences, and ideas. For more information on how to contribute please contact us at 617-244-6509.