Consider the Mystic River Jewish History Project!

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Join Us In Restoring Jewish Roots

The Mystic River Jewish
Communities Project

Built in 1903, the Ohabei Shalom Chapel stands at the grand entrance of the first Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts, Temple Ohabei Shalom Cemetery, founded in 1844. Located in East Boston and home to the largest Jewish population in turn-of-the-century New England, this splendid fieldstone Jewish Chapel will be completely restored and serve as an historic exhibit hall dedicated to the early Mystic River Jewish communities of East Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford and, of course, Revere Beach!

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We invite you to join us in this far-reaching $2M historic project. Make your tax-deductible contribution to the “JCAM Charitable Foundation” for the restoration of the Ohabei Shalom Chapel, and future home of the Mystic River Jewish Exhibit Hall.

To learn more about naming opportunities at the exhibit hall for major gift donors, please call the JCAM Charitable Foundation and a member of our Ohabei Shalom Chapel development team will schedule a time to meet with you.

Thank you for your support. Together, we will succeed in our quest to preserve the legacy of the Mystic River Jewish community and save the one and only Ohabei Shalom Chapel!

Educational Initiatives

Jewish Cemeteries Are For The Living!

The JCAM Charitable Foundation opens
a new chapter in Jewish Education

Do you know….

• Why we leave memorial stones at Jewish Cemeteries?
• The meaning of religious symbols and Hebrew inscriptions on monuments?
• Where do Jewish cemeteries get their names?
• Why do we wash our hands after a burial?
• What sets a Jewish cemetery apart?
• Where the references to Jewish cemeteries are in the Bible?
• Why we bury books and other religious artifacts in graves on Jewish cemeteries?
• The traditional times to visit a cemetery and not? 

Learn what makes Jewish cemeteries Jewish!

Speakers from the new JCAM Charitable Foundation education initiative are now available to  your synagogue, brotherhood/sisterhood, day school, or adult education program to open a new chapter in all aspects of Jewish cemetery education.

Call us and discover for yourself why we believe that Jewish cemeteries are for the living.