New Edition Coming!
JCAM's Guide
to Massachusetts
Jewish Cemeteries

JCAM is preparing its 2010-2012 edition Guide to Jewish Cemeteries: Bridging Past, Present and Future. This edition will contain the same familiar elements that have made our Guide such a successful and popular publication, and it will focus on the accomplishments of our Past, the continuity of our Present, and the vision for our Future. Please consider placing a tribute, or a remembrance – click here to download the Contribution Form. Complete the form and mail it with your check no later than May 1, 2010.

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"Cemeteries Are For The Living"
Education Tours Booking
for Spring 2010

After another impressive year of participation in our Cemeteries Are for the Living tours, we're aiming to improve our offerings for the 2010-2011 cemetery education year.

Specifically, we are planning tours by region around Boston to suit your specific needs and interests, offering tours at convenient and accessible locations, such as:

• Boston Area - Getting back to our roots begins in East Boston. Visit the first Jewish cemetery established in Massachusetts (1844)
• Metrowest - Visit Jewish cemeteries in the Natick or Wayland area
• North Shore – Tours to historic Jewish cemeteries in Woburn
• South Shore – Tour the unique Baker Street cemeteries in West Roxbury

Call us to develop a program specific to your group needs.

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Links

Photo Gallery – Cemetery Educational Tours

Jewish Cemetery Symbols Explained

Learn more about JCAM's 100+ cemeteries

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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.