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JEWISH CEMETERIES IN LOUISIANA, USA: |
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Baton Rouge:
B'nai
Israel Baton Rouge
Jewish Cemetery
1400 Block of North
Street
Baton Rouge,
East Baton Rouge Parish,
Louisiana, 70806 USA
Phone: 225-343-0111
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a Grave
Owned and manged by:
Congregation B'nai Israel
Baton Rouge (Reform Judaism)
3354 Kleinert Avenue
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
Phone: 225-343-0111
Website:
https://bnaibr.org/
Rabbi Batsheva Appel,
Religious
School,
Youth Groups, Adult Education
Since 1858
Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Liberal Synagogue Cemetery
9665 Florida Blvd,
Baton Rouge, LA 70815, USA
Phone: +1 225-924-6773
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Owned and Operated by:
Beth Shalom Synagogue
Baton
Rouge (Reform)
Formerly Baton Rouge Liberal Synagogue
9111 Jefferson Hwy.,
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Phone: (225)
924-6773
Website:
here!
Rabbi
Teri Appleby
Shabbat Services,
Adult Education, PJ
Library
Since 1945
Last updated:
January 4, 2022
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Donaldsonville:
Bikur Cholim Cemetery
St. Patrick St.
Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish,
Louisiana, 70346
USA
Since 1856
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Photo of Former Congregation Bikur
Cholim,
Flickr, taken: Jan 8, 2010
Read:
The Hardware Store Synagoue
Read
more
Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Lafayette:
Temple Shalom Lafayette
The Center for
Jewish Life
in Acadiana (Reform)
603 Lee Avenue
Lafayette, LA
70501
Phone: 337-234-3760
Website:
hhere!
Friday
Night, Shabbat Services
B'nai Mitzvah Programs
Since
1869
Menachim Aveilim Cemetery Lafayette
(Also known as Hebrew Rest
Cemetery,
Jewish Cemetery)
1254 Lee Ave, Lafayette,
LA 70501,
USA
Cemetery Website:
here!
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Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Mandeville:
Northshore Jewish Congregation
(Reform)
1403 North Causeway Boulevard
Mandeville, Louisiana 70471
Phone: (985) 951-7976
Website:
http://www.northshorejewish.org/
Rabbi Barbara
Metzinger
Religious School, Hebrew School,
Youth and
Adult Education,
Israel Programs
Synagogue since the
early 1980's
NJC Jewish Cemetery
at Pinecrest Memorial Gardens
2280 W 21st Ave,
Covington, LA 70433, USA
Last updated:
January 5, 2022
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Metairie:
Congregation Gates of Prayer /
Shaarei Tefilah (Reform)
4000 W.
Esplanade Aveune
Metaire, LA 70002
Phone: 504-885-2600
Website:
here!
Rabbi David Gerber
Synagogue since January 6, 1850
Congregation Gates of
Prayer
Gates of Prayer Cemetery No. 1 -
Canal Street (Reform)
4824 Canal St,
New Orleans, LA, USA
Originally known as Tememe
Derech in 1858, the cemetery was renamed Gates of Prayer
in 1939.
Phone: (504) 885-2600
It is also called Chevra Thilim
Cemetery
Facebook:
here!
Phone: +1 504-889-1144 verify
See
Ref and Coordinate
Read Google Reviews by Yair Weil (2019) and
Linda Miklowitz (2020), including photos.
Joseph Street Cemetery
1411 Joseph Street,
New Orleans, LA 70119
Since January 12, 1850
Website:
here!
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Youtube:
Chevra Thilim Cemetery (Gates Of Prayer), New Orleans,
Louisiana - January 2021
"Chevra Thilim
Cemetery was once separate Jewish cemeteries; Chevra Thilim
Cemetery and Gates Of Prayer No. 2 which was formerly,
Beth Israel Cemetery, Tememe Derech Cemetery and
Canal Street Cemetery".more...
Last updated: January 5, 2022
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New Orleans:
Hebrew Rest Cemetery
(Reform)
2101
Pelopidas St,
New Orleans, LA 70122, USA
Phone: +1 504-615-7207
Website:
https://www.hebrewrest.org/
History of the Jewish Cemeteries
in New Orleans since
1827
https://www.hebrewrest.org/history
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Jointy owned by Touro Synagogue
and Temple Sinai.
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Last
updated: January 4, 2022
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Touro Synagogue New Orleans
(Reform Judaism since 1891)
4238 St Charles Ave,
New Orleans, LA 70115
A merger between:
Congregation Gates of Mercy (1828)
- Shaarei Chesed (Wikipedia)
& Congregation Dispersed of Judah (1846)
- Nefutzoth Yehudah
Website: https://tourosynagogue.com/
Rabbi Katie Bauman, Senior Rabbi
Children, Youth, B'nai Mitzvah,
Henry S. Jacobs Camp, Adult Education
Since 1828
Hebrew Rest
Cemetery since 1827
Hebrew Rest Cemetery Association
since
1959
Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Orleans Parish:
Hebrew Rest Cemetery #2
New Orleans, Orleans Parish,
Louisiana, USA
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Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Hebrew Rest Cemetery #3
2003 Pelopidas St.
New Orleans, Orleans
Parish,
Louisiana, USA
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Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Dispersed of Judah Cemetery
4901 Canal Street
in Mid City
New
Orleans, Orleans Parish,
Louisiana, USA
Opened: 1846.
The
Second Jewish Cemetery
to be built in New Orleans.
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Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Ahavas Sholem Cemetery /
Congregation Agudath Anshe Sfard Cemetery
4400 Elysian Fields Ave
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, 70122 USA
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Anshe Sfard Synagogue
(Orthodox,
OU)
2230 Carondelet Street,
New Orleans, LA
70130
Phone: 504-522-4714
Website:
https://www.anshesfard.org/
Congregation founded in
1896
Last
updated: January 4, 2022
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Chevra Thilim Memorial Park
5000 Iberville Street
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Phone: +1 504-889-1144
Facebook:
here!
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Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Chevra Thilim Congregation
Orleans Parish,
Louisiana, USA (Orthodox)
Incorporated on July 27, 1887
(then referred to as
Hebrew Congregation Chebra Thilim)
Reincorporated on
August 31, 1897
Because of the
disappearance of the original act of incorporation
The establishment of Jewish Cemetery was part of the objects
and purposes of this incorporaton.
Nathan Serman - May 1858, Poland - Sep. 4, 21, Orleans
Parish (63).
Was the Pesident of Chevra Thilim Congregation
Read
Court Case Katz v. Singerman 1961 in regard to Chevra Thilim
Congregation
Read:
The Debate over mixed sitting in the America Synagogue - by
Jonathan D. Sarna, University Press 1987, p. 385, in regard to
Katz v. Singerman 1961
Last updated: January 5, 2022
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Beth Israel Cemetery (Orthodox)
Also known as Old Beth Israel Cemetery
and Beth
Israel Cemetery No. 2
Also known as Jewish Burial
Rites Society
4321 Frenchmen Street
New Orleans, Orleans
Parish,
Louisiana, USA
Opened in 1936
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More details: Congregation Beth Israel
(Orthodox,
OU)
4004 West Esplanade Avenue
Metairie, LA 70002
Phone:
504-454-5080
Website: here!
Rabbi Josh Pernick
Wikipedia:
Beth Israel New Orleans
Last updated: January 5,
2021
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update us!
New Beth Israel Cemetery
(Orthodox)
Beth Israel Cemetery No. 3
4400 Elysian Fields Avenue
New Orleans, Orleans Parish,
Louisiana, 70122 USA
Since 1990
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More details: Congregation Beth Israel
(Orthodox,
OU)
4004 West Esplanade Avenue
Metairie, LA 70002
Phone:
504-454-5080
Website: here!
Rabbi Josh Pernick
Wikipedia:
Beth Israel New Orleans
Last updated: January 5,
2021
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update us!
Opelousas:
Temple Emanuel Jewish Cemetery
900 E
Bellevue St,
Opelousas, LA 70570, USA
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Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Shreveport:
Shreveport's First
Jewish Cemetery
1004 Sprague St, Shreveport,
Caddo Parish, LA 71101, USA
N 32°
30.574 W 093° 45.274
15S E 429123 N 3597170
Located in the very west
edge of downtown Shreveport on Sprague Street, in the northeast corner of
Oakland Cemetery.
Ref:
here!
The Hebrew Benevolent Assn. of Shreveport purchased a quarter
acre of Oakland Cemetery from the city in July 1858. The
resulting Jewish Cemetery was Shreveport's First and Louisiana's Fifth.
This cemetery was used exclusively from 1858-1886 and intermittenly from
1886-1950. Source: Photo of Historical Marker.
Last updated: January
4, 2022
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Hebrew Rest Cemetery
2nd Shreveport Jewish Cemetery
1573 Texas Ave
Shreveport, Caddo
Parish,
Louisiana, 71103 USA
Phone: 318-425-2447
Opened in
1886
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Numerous Civic Pioneers are buried here,
including Shreveport Mayor Ben Holzman
Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Agudath Achim Cemetery
Shreveport's 3rd Jewish Cemetery
Congregation Agudath Achim
(Founded
Orthodox and Became Conservative gradually, after WWII).
9401 Village
Green Dr.
Shreveport, LA 71115
Phone: 318-797-6401
Website:
here!
Rabbi Sydni Rubinstein
Community Jewish School,
Adult Education
Kashrut Policy
/
Approved
Cheese List
Est. 1902
Agudath Achim
Shreveport Cemetery
at the corner of Yale and Walnut,
in
Shreveport, Lousiana
Originally called "Orthodox Hebrew Rest", this was
Shreveport's third Jewish Cemetery (of four) and first Orthodox Jewish
cemetery. Established in 1902, the cemetery's size was significantly
increased in 1945. Source: Photo of Historical Marker,
FAG.
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Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Washington, LA:
Hebrew Rest Cemetery
610 Vine St,
Washington, LA, USA
Read Google Review by TB
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Oldest burials found by Find a Grave:
1.
Isadore Plonsky.
Birth Unknown (1843).
Death 1867.
At the age of 24.
Burial: Hebrew Rest Cemetery
Washington, St. Landry Parish,
Louisiana, USA
2.
Jacob
Tobiah
Birth Unknown (1832)
Death: 1867
Burial: Hebrew Rest Cemetery
Washington, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA
See headstone:
"Aged
35 years".
3.
Simon
Samual
Birth Unknown (1834).
Death: September 18 1867
Burial: Hebrew Rest Cemetery
Washington, St. Landry Parish,
Louisiana, USA
See
gravestone: "Aged 33 years".
4.
Lena
Plonsky.
Birth Unknown.
Death: October 5, 1867
Burial: Hebrew Rest Cemetery,
Washington, St. Landry Parish,
Louisiana, USA
5.
Samuel Wolff
Birth: 10 Dec 1866
Death: 27 Oct 1867
(aged 10 months)
Burial: Hebrew Rest Cemetery
Washington, St. Landry Parish,
Louisiana, USA
6.
Fannie R. Wolff
Birth: 6 May 1861
Death:
28 Oct 1867
(aged 6)
Burial: Hebrew Rest Cemetery
WaWashington, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana,
USA
Question: What happened in Washington, Louisiana during 1867, 2
women of the Plonsky family died; Two young children of the Wolff
family died.
Is there a connection to a sickness in the community? to
hate crimes?
Read:
Yellow Fever in Louisiana
The
1860's in the History of Louisiana
Landmark Legislation: The Reconstruction Act of 1867
Last updated: January 4, 2022
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Jewish
Cemeteries in New Orleans
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Chevra Thilim Cemetery New Orleans (Conservative)
- Hebrew Rest Cemetery Association New Orleans
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Ahavas Sholem Cemetery New Orleans (Orthodox)
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International Jewish Cemetery Project: Shreveport, LA
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Southern Jewish Database and Cemetery Listings
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