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Revere's last synagogue getting ready to close forever
By adamg on Thu, 03/07/2019 - 7:52pm
The Jewish Journal talks to Debbie Cherry, president of Temple B’nai Israel, the last remnant of what was once Revere's large Jewish community - which she is now preparing for sale.
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Chelsea synagogues/congregations ?
What Chelsea synagogues/congregations are active these days?...
More metropolitan area history of note, Cambridge Jewish communities http://world.std.com/~reinhold/cos.timeline.html
OMG
There’s someone else out there who still uses world.std.com! Woo-hoo! :)
Google Maps says:
Google Maps says:
The Walnut Street Synagogue (Congregation Agudath Sholom, Orthodox)
Temple Emmanuel (Reform/Conservative)
Chabad of the Tobin Bridge
Besides Katz's Bagels, are there any Jewish businesses left in Chelsea?
Good Shabbos everyone!
To answer my own question,
To answer my own question, other Jewish businesses in Chelsea include:
Allen’s Cut Rate Perfumers
Kirshon Paint and Window Treatments
Torf Funeral Service
Arthur's Deli closed in 2017 [!]
Two more:
Two more:
Chelsea Floor Covering, owned by the Rosen family since 1929
Margolis Pharmacy, since the early 1930s
I've helped bury a couple of old Jewish folks...
... in those little cemeteries that string out along the southwest corridor... and each time I'm struck that these are not only the graveyards of individuals, but the graveyards of entire neighborhood communities that simply ceased to exist as the kids and grandkids moved out and moved on.
Cheer up
In the Jewish tradition, communities do not cease to exist - they move.
What better place for a philosophical paradox
OK, it's ancient Greek rather than ancient Talmudic, but time for a puzzle anyhow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Live in the now dude.
Live in the now.
I'm all for living in the now...
I'm all for living in the now, but that doesn't make it a bad idea to steer a conversation toward the nearest philosophical paradox.
Mystery. What happened to a North End Jewish burying ground?
A North End mystery. A Jewish burying ground in North End maybe on one of the small streets off Salem Street, not Copp's Hll, not the West End prison burying ground, is somewhere under current times' buildings. Maybe there where used to be a synagogue with the burying ground next to it. A self published memoir on a shelf at North End Branch Boston Public Library described the small burying ground. Local West End/North End history experts have denied it existed. The West End Museum https://thewestendmuseum.org didn't turn up any information about it.
I am confident that the history Boston is well chronicled.
Records are not lost of the oldest urban residential neighborhood in the country. Especially from the 19th century forward when Jewish people started coming to America. Although it's true that people once did crazy things like move graveyards, I would need something better than some dudes self-published memoir. Think "investigative journalist blogger" who specializes
in "mysterious drownings".
Boston's Jewish Cemeteries
My understanding is that the first Jewish burial ground, Temple Ohabei Shalom Cemetery, was established in East Boston in 1844. I don't think there was any Jewish burial ground in the North End. What is the name/author of this self-published memoir?
And here's the 2nd oldest,
And here's the 2nd oldest, which was up in the Malden and apparently forgotten until a few years ago. https://vimeo.com/76530541
North End Branch Boston Public Library
Still trying to recall Author/Title of the book. A North End Jewish memoir on a shelf at North End Branch Boston Public Library, NorthEast side of Parmenter Street between Salem St. and Hanover St. https://www.bpl.org/locations/31/
Also trying JCAM Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts https://www.jcam.org/Pages/About_JCAM/about_JCAM.php
A few plots next to a synagogue could be the key
A common thing at houses of worship that wouldn't be counted as a cemetery. So maybe trying to find an old synagogue is your best bet.
Re: A few plots next to a synagogue.
Thank you!
A few plots next to a synagogue fits. Later structures over the real estate might be covering plots.
Aren't Jewish cemeteries
Aren't Jewish cemeteries typically located not next to a synagogue?
Yes
Also, they're not typically owned/overseen by temples, but by societies set up for that purpose. There are a ton of Jewish cemeteries in West Roxbury along the Dedham line.
And a whole bunch more in Woburn
However, many Jewish cemeteries are owned by synagogues, including the one where my father is buried in Ohio. Also including the very first one in East Boston.
Local list: Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts
Second closing of a Revere shul in two years
From 2017: The end of Congregation Tifereth Israel, on Shirley Avenue