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OCT
2025
Kelly Schwimer, executive director of Jewish Cemetery & Burial Association, participates in the cleanup project at Beth Abraham Cemetery in the South Hills on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. The volunteer event was part of several community projects done to commemorate the seventh year since the Tree of Life Synagogue attacks on Oct. 27, 2018. (Tim Grant/Post-Gazette)

7 years later, acts of service keep the memory of synagogue shooting victims alive

Kelly Schwimer, executive director of Jewish Cemetery & Burial Association, participates in the cleanup project at Beth Abraham Cemetery in the South Hills on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. The volunteer event was part of several community projects done to commemorate the seventh...
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JUN
2025
College students join a cemetery cleanup organized by JCBA.

JCBA’s youth engagement brings new life to sacred spaces

‘Long before kids have to come to a cemetery for very emotional reasons, there can be interesting reasons — teachable moments — and very beautiful reasons to be at a cemetery’ Published by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. By Adam Reinherz June 16, 2025 The first...
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FEB
2025
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro with former JCBA executive director Barry Rudel

A Holiday Honor for Former JCBA Director

On December 29, 2024, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro hosted a Hanukkah Reception at the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Attendees—including former JCBA Executive Director Barry Rudel and Tree of Life Cemetery...
13
NOV
2024

Tribute to a hero: City man whose remains were found 80 years after his death in WWII honored with marker at Jewish cemetery

Published by New Castle News By Dan Irwin Nov 13, 2024 Nathan Baskind didn’t have a large role in New Castle’s past. But now, he’s a permanent part of its future. The 28-year-old first lieutenant was killed in World War II, having left a short stint as manager of the city’s...
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OCT
2024
Volunteers working at Oct 27 Memorial Volunteer Event

JCBA Board and Staff Thank Participants of Memorial Volunteer Event

To each of you who joined us for the annual Jewish Cemetery & Burial Association Commemoration Cemetery Clean-Up Day on Sunday, October 27th, we extend our deepest gratitude. Your dedication and compassion brought dignity and honor to the sacred grounds of our ancestors, and...
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SEP
2024
JCBA community unveiling August 2024

Community Unveiling Honors Those Laid to Rest

The Staff and Board of Directors of the Jewish Cemetery & Burial Association of Greater Pittsburgh extends our deepest gratitude to each of you who joined us for the Community Unveiling on Sunday, August 25th at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery to honor those who were laid to rest...
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JUL
2024

Sunday, August 25, 2024—JCBA to Hold Annual Community Unveiling

An unbroken chain of memory holds us together through the years and through the generations. Please join us and witness as we consecrate the headstone monuments to the memories of those buried in the last year. The Community Unveiling will be held Sunday, August 25, 2024 at...
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NOV
2023

JCBA grows, welcomes new leaders

With strong leadership and dedicated board, local organization grows endowment and continues serving community Published by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. By ADAM REINHERZ November 27, 2023 Almost four years after taking the helm of the Jewish Cemetery and Burial...
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SEP
2023

JCBA welcomes new staff member

Jennifer Primack is the JCBA’s new operations manager. Published by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. By TOBY TABACHNICK August 30, 2023 The Jewish Cemetery & Burial Association of Greater Pittsburgh has hired Jennifer Primack as its operations manager. Primack...
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JUL
2023

Genealogists preserve memories in Port Vue cemetery

Without this work, the people buried there would have been “lost to time” Published by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle By ADAM REINHERZ July 10, 2023 Burial markers at Kesher Israel Cemetery. Photo by Chuck Fuller The quest to prevent erasure prompted two genealogists...
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Thanks to Our Community Partners

Special thanks to Ralph Schugar Chapel for so generously providing for JCBA funerals and to Urbach Memorials for providing headstones for our burials. Thank you also to Robert Garvin, Esq. for his legal help and to The Greater Pittsburgh Rabbinical Association.

JCBA’s expanded vision is made possible by a generous grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s  Jewish Community Foundation.

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