Wilbur and Miriam Cohen Legacy

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...

Letter from the Executive Director

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...

Judah Touro Cemetery

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...