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Restoration Project Highlights

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In keeping with the Jewish tradition to honor the dead, CAJAC represents the organized Jewish community’s consolidated efforts to preserve Jewish cemeteries and to create permanent solutions for ensuring their long-term sustainability.

Through a collaboration of volunteers, community leaders and local agencies, CAJAC actively addresses the decline of Jewish cemeteries, frequently spearheading rehabilitation efforts to restore dignity and respect to distressed burial grounds.

CAJAC conducts a variety of volunteer programs including debris removal, gravestone reclamation, graffiti removal, and grave cataloguing. We also collaborate with genealogists to increase records on Jewish burials.

Please email info@cajac.org for more information.

CAJAC has successfully leveraged private and communal funding to restore cemeteries and burial society grounds to proper conditions. In many cases, CAJAC has created a structure for the stewardship and management of restored grounds, ensuring charitable investments are optimized.

Below is a snapshot of some of CAJAC’s most successful projects to date:

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Bayside Cemetery

May 18, 2019
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Baron Hirsch Cemetery

May 18, 2018
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Jewish Cemetery of Central Islip

May 18, 2018
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Kings Park Jewish Cemetery

May 18, 2018
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Sherwood Park Cemetery

May 3, 2018
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“When you mention Jewish cemeteries in America, the interest is not always there. My feeling is, Jewish history is Jewish history and how could you allow Jewish cemeteries to fall into disrepair and be overgrown? CAJAC represents the Jewish community’s collective response to cemetery preservation and it is continuing to become backstop to take care of Jewish cemeteries in Metropolitan New York.”

Richard FishmanFormer Director of the New York State Division of Cemeteries.

CAJAC shares with the National Association of Chevros Kadisha (NASCK) a commitment to highlighting the Jewish community’s sacred duty towards end-of-life issues. I am pleased CAJAC continues to address the systemic challenges facing Jewish cemeteries,simultaneously sensitizing the Jewish community as it relates to its obligation to care for its cemeteries.

Rabbi Elchonon ZohnExecutive Director, NASCK
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CAJAC New York Office:  171 Madison Avenue, #1602, New York, NY  10016

CAJAC New Jersey Office:  9-20 12th Street, Fair Lawn, NJ  07410

Email:  info@cajac.org      Phone:  (914) 574 7057

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