Friends of New Jersey Jewish Cemeteries, Inc.
(a.k.a. Friends for Preservation of Middlesex County Jewish Cemeteries, Inc.)
REAL CEMETERY TOURS AT ALL OUR CEMETERIES
Many of you have enjoyed the virtual tour on this Web site and have returned often to this virtual tour to visit your ancestors' graves when you can't visit in person. In response to your excellent suggestions, we began a series of real Cemetery Tours in March 2006 to provide an opportunity for us to visit the graves of our loved ones in person. Because of the popularity of these real tours, we have continued these tours since then.
We plan to continue these tours in 2020 also and hope to schedule them at ALL of our cemeteries. These tours provide an excellent opportunity to honor the memory of the New Jersey Jewish Communities of yesteryear; learn interesting historical information about these cemeteries, those interred there, and the communities in which they lived; locate the graves of your relatives (if you don't already know where they are); and observe the current condition of the cemeteries and our progress in restoring them. In addition, we often include a few prayers and poems to enhance the memorial tribute. Some families arrange in advance to attend these tours as a group, and this enables many attendees to enhance their experience by seeing cousins they haven't seen for a long time and, in some cases, meeting cousins they have never met before. We always try to select dates that we hope will be both attractive and convenient for as many people as possible.
The Community Relations Committee of Greater MetroWest NJ sponsors Newark Cemetery Visiting Day annually, and we hope many of you will be able to attend this special event too. We will post information on our website about this event too.
We will announce our 2020 Cemetery Tour schedule on this website as soon as it is available. It will also appear in our Spring 2020 newsletter.
We hope you will be able to join us at one or more of our tours, and we hope you will invite your friends and relatives to come too. The tours are free, and all are welcome and invited to attend. Please check back frequently for more information.
