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prevalence of cremation, said Zuckman,
which is now the choice in more than 50
percent of non-Jewish deaths.
Just as Jewish families followed
Christian burial customs in planting
flowers on graves, so more families are
requesting cremation, even though it
is strictly forbidden by Jewish law and
frowned upon by Jewish custom.
Two of the Detroit area's three Jewish
funeral homes, Ira Kaufman Chapel and
Dorfman Funeral Chapel, will handle
cremations; Hebrew Memorial Chapel
will not.
As the number of cremations rises
and the number of burials decreases,
cemeteries have less money to invest for
maintenance.
Paying for perpetual care is no guar-
antee a grave will be maintained forever;
in almost every case, the remains will
outlast the institution that started the
cemetery.
"Perpetuity is a long time Zuckman
joked.
Across the country, Jewish communi-
ties are facing the challenge of caring for
old cemeteries whose founding organiza-
tions have declined or disappeared, said
Zuckman, who is a board member and
past president of the Jewish Cemetery
Association of North America.
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater
Cincinnati was incorporated in 2004
to manage all of the area's Jewish cem-
eteries. The project was funded by the
combined endowments of the individual
cemeteries and a grant from the Jewish
Federation of Cincinnati.

In Cleveland, the Jewish Federation is
in the midst of a $3.5 million Cemetery
Preservation Campaign to maintain
cemeteries in areas where Jews no lon-
ger live and synagogues no longer exist.
The Commission on Jewish Cemetery
Preservation manages six of the city's 16
Jewish cemeteries as well as one of the
three Jewish sections in other cemeteries.
In Massachusetts, 115 of the state's 209
Jewish cemeteries are owned and oper-
ated by the Jewish Cemetery Association
of Massachusetts, which gets financial
support from the local federation.
No one knows exactly how many
Jewish cemeteries there are in the Detroit
area.
Over time, many of the smaller cem-
eteries started by landsmanshaften and
now-defunct congregations and organi-
zations were taken over by the Hebrew
Memorial Society, but some were left to
languish.
Clover Hill Park has guardianship of
Beth Olam Cemetery, which is located
on the grounds of the General Motors
Poletown Plant and has graves dating
back to 1848. It is open to the public
twice a year, on the days before Rosh
Hashanah and Passover.
A nonprofit organization, Friends of
B'nai David Cemetery, was formed last
year to care for an abandoned cemetery
near Detroit City Airport that had been
totally overgrown. The organization
makes sure the grass is cut and opens
the cemetery to visitors a few times a
year.

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Another view of Hebrew Memorial Park, where an 18-member grounds crew

pulls weeds and picks up litter each weekday throughout the year.

