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An Amazing Resource

In June 2011, JCGC announced the addition of a genealogy feature to its website. This feature is easy to use and quickly has become the most popular area of our website, which can be found at www.jcemcin.org. By clicking on the Genealogy tab on our home page, you land on a page that provides a . . . Read More

Clifton Cemetery History

The English immigrants who bought the land for the Chestnut St. cemetery, Joseph Jonas and Morris Moses, were among the small group of Jews who, in 1824 — three years after the cemetery was created — formed K. K. Bene Israel – the Holy Congregation of the Children of Israel – the first Jewish congregation . . . Read More

David Urbansky

THE DEPARTED, BUT WITHIN OUR WALLS, WE NOW REMEMBER David Urbansky was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry in battle at Shiloh and Vicksburg during the Civil War. He was the only known Jew and one of only 18 of Ohio’s 310,364 Union soldiers in the Civil War to be so honored. He . . . Read More

Chestnut St. Cemetery History

It’s a small town . . . with a population of just 9,642 people. It’s a pretty rough-and-tumble place, made up mostly of people who wanted to get away from the big population centers. They were willing to come to a place where most people were farmers, although both a merchant class and an intelligentsia . . . Read More

JCGC Announces Opening of All Remaining Undeveloped Areas in Montgomery Cemetery

JCGC’s Board of Trustees has approved the sale of burial lots in the last two undeveloped areas of the Montgomery cemetery at 7885 Ivygate Ln. Both areas are at the end of the cemetery farthest from the entrance. The larger area will represent an expansion in available lots in this traditionally Reform cemetery. The other . . . Read More

Annual Report 2012

September 30th marks the end of our fourth full year of operating as JCGC. It was an eventful year. Most important was the purchase of 23 acres of land for a new cemetery on Loveland-Miamiville Rd, about a mile from the Ward’s Corner exit on I -275. We were fortunate to have the Jewish Foundation . . . Read More

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Partners with Acsent On Monument Sales

CINCINNATI, OH, February 15, 2011 – Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati (“JCGC”) announced today a partnership with Acsent to provide top quality monuments and markers to the Jewish community. Under this partnership, Acsent will be JCGC’s exclusive supplier and will assist JCGC’s staff in the sale of monuments and markers to families with loved ones . . . Read More

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Completes Its First Year; Elects New Officers, Board, The American Israelite, March 25, 2010

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Announces New Signage Program

CINCINNATI, OH, December 4, 2008 – Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati (“JCGC”) announced today that it will be implementing a new signage program in all its cemeteries to reflect its new logo and to signify the new identity of the 22 cemeteries that joined JCGC in 2008. The first new signs will be installed this . . . Read More

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Announces Opening of Two New Sections in Montgomery Cemetery

CINCINNATI, OH, September 19, 2008 – Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati announced today that its Board of Trustees has approved the sale of lots in two new sections of the Montgomery cemetery at 7885 Ivygate Ln. Section 3B, which is directly behind Section 3A, more commonly known as the Adath Israel section, will be a . . . Read More