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Cemeteries/Death Services

Baltimore Jewish Cemetery Database

c/o The Jewish Museum of Maryland
15 Lloyd Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-732-6400 ext. 24
info@jewishmuseummd.org
www.jewishmuseummd.org
Family history coordinator: Deborah Weiner

Database contains names of more than 23,000 individuals who are buried at Baltimore's three major Jewish cemetery complexes: Rosedale, Herring Run (Bowley's Lane) and German Hill Road (Hebrew Mount Carmel) as well as some individual cemeteries. Database covers the 1850s to current decade.

Chevra Ahavas Chesed Inc.

PO Box 20883
Baltimore, MD 21209
443-286-0424
410-358-0316
Executive director: Myron Esterson

Functions to relieve the distressed and to provide burial services for its members in the Orthodox Jewish tradition.

Hebrew Burial & Social Service Society of Maryland

2700 Quarry Lake Drive, Ste 200
Baltimore, MD 21209
2700 Quarry Lake Drive
Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21209
410-415-5800
Dr. Edward Morris

Enables needy Jews to purchase medical equipment, such as eyeglasses and wheelchairs; contact Jewish Community Services. Provides burial expenses and headstones for needy families, through Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral home. Agency of the Associated.

Jewish Cemetery Association of Greater Baltimore

The Associated
101 W. Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21201
410-369-9212
410-837-1309
kkarsh@associated.org
www.associated.org
Director, treasury services: Ken Karsh

Representative forum of local Jewish cemeteries providing joint services, coordinated response to common concerns and communal management of cemeteries as requested. Maintains list of all active Jewish cemeteries, including congregational.

Jewish Community Services

5750 Park Heights Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21215
410-466-9200
jcs@jcsbaltimore.org
www.jcsballtimore.org
Ruth Glick

Offers loss support groups; Jewish Hospice Network, to care for people challenged by terminal illness and provide support to families; and Irvin B. Levinson Memorial lecture series sponsored by JCS and Sol Levinson & Bros. Inc.

National Institute for Jewish Hospice

732 University Street
North Woodmere, N.Y. 11581
800-446-4448
President: Dr. Maurice Camm

Resource for professionals and patients who deal with the Jewish terminally ill. Accreditation program for hospices.

Ner Israel Rabbinical College

400 Mount Wilson Lane
Baltimore, MD 21208
410-484-7200
lhoffman@nirc.edu
Director of development: Rabbi Louis Hoffman

Program of Kaddish recitation three times per day for one year. Yahrzeit and Yizkor services and memorial plaques.

Sol Levinson & Brothers Inc.

8900 Reisterstown Road
Baltimore, MD 21208
410-653-8900
800-338-1701
410-653-1613
matt@sollevinson.com
www.sollevinson.com
Matt Levinson

Jewish funeral home. Outreach center, library and after-care program. Pre-arrangement funerals available. Booklet listing area Jewish cemeteries available.