by admin | Jun 9, 2020 | June 2020, Archives, Newsletters
In the last months, we’ve lost many community members, with many leaders and supporters among them. Two friends of Jewish Cemeteries who passed recently are brothers Phil and Wilbur Cohen. We mourn their loss, among the many other souls. Wilbur and his spouse...
by admin | Mar 19, 2020 | March 2020, Archives, Newsletters
These are challenging times in which we all find ourselves. Our lives are changing moment to moment, and we don’t know what the next day will bring. A friend shared a letter from a rabbi the other day that sought to comfort by reminding us all that the certainty we...
by admin | Mar 19, 2020 | March 2020, Archives, Newsletters
There has been exciting news for Ethan Zied, the Dayton area Eagle Scout who has made it his job to get a veteran’s marker at the grave of every Cincinnati Jewish veteran and ready for flag decoration going forward. On February 8, 2020, his project was awarded the...
by admin | Mar 19, 2020 | March 2020, Archives, Newsletters
Q & A with Bill Kahn and Ben Lefton of Weil Kahn Funeral Home Our Marketing Committee Chair, Karen Zanger, reached out to Weil Kahn Funeral Home to discuss planning. Jewish Cemeteries and Weil Kahn both encourage community members to make arrangements in advance....
by admin | Mar 19, 2020 | March 2020, Archives, Newsletters
For someone who was described by one who knew him as “not a man of brilliant mind; on the contrary, he was slow, and not given to bursts of enthusiasm,” Judah Touro had quite an eventful life. In 1797 at the age of twenty-two, he went on a voyage from his home in...
by admin | Mar 19, 2020 | March 2020, Archives, Newsletters
In the afternoon hours of New Year’s Eve 2019, my husband Stuart and I made a decision that felt like a satisfying way to start to 2020. We made the commitment to support Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati beyond the length of our own lives, through a pledge to...