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28
JUL
2024

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

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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 11:00am, at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, JCBA’s free burial cemetery (498 Oakwood Street, Shaler Township, PA...
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27
NOV
2023

JCBA grows, welcomes new leaders

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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 Association of Greater Pittsburgh and helping grow the organization in stature and scope, Barry Rudel is stepping down....
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06
SEP
2023

JCBA welcomes new staff member

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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 replaces Operations Manager Kelly Schwimer, who will become the organization’s executive director when Barry Rudel...
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13
JUL
2023

Genealogists preserve memories in Port Vue cemetery

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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 to painstakingly preserve the history of a Jewish cemetery in Port Vue. Between December 2021 and May, Chuck...
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15
JUN
2023

JCBA announces leadership transition

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Kelly Schwimer, will succeed Barry Rudel as the organization’s executive director upon Rudel’s retirement in December. Published by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle By TOBY TABACHNICK June 15, 2023 The Jewish Cemetery and Burial Association of Greater Pittsburgh announced that its operation manager, Kelly Schwimer, will succeed Barry Rudel as the organization’s executive...
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The JCBA has many volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups who take pride in doing the ultimate Mitzva. If you are interested in volunteering on Mitzva Day, scheduling a specific day for your group or organization, interested in a community service or scout program or to attend our annual unveiling ceremonies please contact us.

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PO Box 81863
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
412-553-6469
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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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