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WASHINGTON, DC -- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

(see Maryland and Virginia for areas contiguous to Washington, DC)

Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW)
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Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington (Office & Archives)
Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum
600 I Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 789-0900
(202) 789-0485 - fax
Website: http://www.jhsgw.org
Email: info@jhsgw.org

Historic 1876 Synagogue
Corner of 3rd and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Open by appointment only, Please call (202) 789-0900
Website: http://www.jhsgw.org
Email: info@jhsgw.org

SYNAGOGUES IN DC: http://www.shalomdc.org/page.html?ArticleID=114851 [2007]

THE CEMETERIES
  • ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION CEMETERY : 1400 Alabama Avenue SE, Washington, DC. Glenn Easton, Executive Dir. (202) 362-4433. Used by Adas Israel Congregation and Agudas Achim Congregation. Take Beltway Exit 22B (B-W Pkwy) to I-295 South, then take Suitland Pkwy 1.5 mi. to Stanton Rd. Right on Stanton and follow up hill approx. 1.0 mile to Alabama Ave. Turn right onto Alabama Ave. and proceed to last gate. Adas Israel Hebrew Cemetery is also referred by the number 03303 in the book "Cemeteries of the US", Deborah M. Burek, ed. Detroit MI: Gale Research Int., 1994. ISBN 0-8103-9245-3. Source: Al Rosenfield, arosen@ee.net
  • BETH SHOLOM CONGREGATION (Old) 15th & Congress Place, S.E., Washington. DC. (301) 279-7010.
  • CHESED SHEL EMMES [EMRESH] Cemetery: Marty Kamerow, (301) 365-5228.Take Beltway Exit 15B (Central Ave. West), follow Central Ave. west 4 miles into D.C. Turn left onto Southern Ave. and follow left into the cemetery. Used by Hebrew Free Burial Society.
  • CONGRESS HEIGHTS Cemeteries: 3200 block of 15th Pl. SE. Washington, DC. Cross S. Capitol St. Bridge to Suitland Pkwy. Left on Suitland Pkwy to Stanton Rd.; right on Stanton Rd. to Alabama Avenue; right on Alabama to the cemeteries. OR Right on Stanton Rd. to Bruce Place; right on Bruce Place to 15th Place; left on 15th Place to cemetery. Used by:
  • ELESVETEGRAD Cemetery Assn.; aka DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LODGE Cemetery: off of 15th St, SE, Anacostia. Contact: Sylvia Kress, (301) 942-4987; Source: Bill Landau, (301) 299-8143 (home) (202) 273-6788 (work). Located at Congress Place SE near 15th Street. The person who has large index cards with a record of all burials is Mrs. Sylvia Kress, (410) 342-4987, Baltimore, MD. Another contact for this cemetery is Harry W. Heltzman, 1427 Chilton Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20904 (301) 384-5214. With about 1000 burials at this location, the cemetery is located adjacent to other Jewish cemeteries (Congress Heights Cemeteries). Source: Flora Gursky, gurskyh@erols.com.JGSGW. Rose Markowitz (301) 949-7063
  • MACHPELAH: See Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery
    Macpelah was the first cemetery of WHC. It is no longer located at its original site on Hamilton Road. The name comes from the name that Abraham gave to his family's burial site.

  • OAK HILL Cemetery: 30th & R. St. NW, from Postal & Koppman Jewish Tourist's Guide to U.S. Phila., PA: Jewish Publ. Soc., 1954), p.107.

  • NATIONA CAPITAL HEBREW CEMETERY: 4708 Fable Street, Capitol Heights, MD 20743. (202) 420-9710 Caretaker: (301) 420-9710. National Capitol Hebrew Cemetery Association, Howard Katz (President) (301) 933-9710. National Capitol Hebrew Cemetery is located in S.E. Washington and partly in Capitol Heights, Maryland. UPDATE:Take Beltway Exit 15B (Central Ave. West) and follow Central Avenue approx. 2.8 mi. Turn left onto Yost St. and right onto Central Ave. Go approx. 0.7 mi. to Larchmont Ave. Turn left, Go approx. 0.7 mi. and turn right on Fable Street.
  • WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION CEMETERY: 1380 Alabama Avenue SE, Washington, DC (202) 562-1807. Take Beltway Exit 22B (B-W Pkwy)to I-295 South to Suitland Pkwy. Take Suitland Pkwy 1.5 mi. to Stanton Rd. Turn right onto Stanton Rd. and follow up hill approx. 1.0 mi. to Alabama Ave. Turn right onto Alabama Ave. Go to 1st gate. The oldest Jewish congregation in the nation's capital is Washington Hebrew Congregation (WHC), founded in 1852 by a group of German Jews. Though originally Orthodox, the congregation adopted more and more reforms and when in 1869, they voted to order an organ, 35 members split from WHC to form the new Orthodox congregation, Adas Israel. Macpelah was the first cemetery of WHC. It is no longer located at its original site on Hamilton Road. The name comes from the name that Abraham gave to his family's burial site. The oldest grave identified is from July 1851; belonging to Albertne Cohen. In the new location on Alabama Avenue the cemetery is still active and is surrounded at a distance by the newer Washington Hebrew Memorial Cemetery. The layout of Macpelah is irregular, with no clearly defined plots and uneven rows. Some of the earliest graves were re-ordered by date of death when they were moved in the 1870's. Some graves were moved a second time, when Alabama Avenue was widened. Time and water drainage have caused some of the graves on the hillside to sink below ground level completely obscuring them from view and identification. It is known that the hillside graves were mostly children's burial sites. The old cemetery is located to the right of the cemetery's entrance gates, but since these gates are frequently locked, a visitor may have to enter through the gates to the adjacent Adas Israel cemetery and find their way over to the WHC gate. The cemetery is well maintained. [UPDATE: March, 2008) ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONGREGATION/ORGANIZATION AND THE CEMETERIES THAT THEY USED:

    ORGANIZATION OR CONGREGATION CEMETERY NAME
    Achduth Chevra Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Adas Israel Congregation Adas Israel Congregation Cemetery
    Agudas Achim (new) King David Memorial Garden
    Agudas Achim Congregation Agudas Achim Congregation Cemetery
    Agudath Achim Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Arlington-Fairfax Jewish Cong. King David Memorial Garden
    B'nai Israel Congregation B'nai Israel Congregation Cemetery
    Baltimore National Cemetery Baltimore National Cemetery
    Baltimore National Cemetery Loudon Park National Cem.
    Baltimore National Cemetery Annapolis National Cemetery
    Baltimore National Cemetery U. S. Naval Academy Cem.
    Beth El King David Memorial Garden
    Beth El Hebrew Congregation Home of Peace Cemetery
    Beth El Hebrew Congregation (new) King David Memorial Garden
    Beth Shalom (old)--Potomac??? Congress Heights Cemeteries
    Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah Beth Sholom Congrega. Cem.
    Beth Tikva Congregation King David Memorial Garden
    Beth Torah King David Memorial Garden
    Congregation Kol Ami Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery
    D.C. Hebrew Beneficial Association Congress Heights Cemeteries
    Deborah King David Memorial Garden
    Directorate of Engineering & Housing Fort Meade Post Cem. No. 1
    Ezras Israel-Ohavei Zedek Congregation National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Farband Zionist Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Free Sons of Israel Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Friendship Lodge National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Friendship Lodge Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    George Washington Lodge Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    George Washington Lodge (old) National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim Congregation Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Hebrew Benevolent Society Home of Peace
    Hebrew Free Burial Society Chesed Shel Emmes[Emresh] Cem.
    Jewish Mutual Aid Society Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Kesher Israel Congregation Kesher Israel Congregation Cem.
    Kesher Israel Congregation National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Kneseth Israel Kneseth Israel Congregation
    Mishkan [Miskan] Torah King David Memorial Garden
    National Capitol Lodge National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Nevey Shalom Congregation of Belair King David Memorial Garden
    Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation King David Memorial Garden
    Ohev Shalom-Talmud Torah Congregation Ohev Sholom-Talmud Torah Cong. Cem.
    Ohev Sholom-Talmud Torah National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Ohev Sholom-Talmud Torah Congregation Congress Heights Cemeteries
    Ohr Kodesh Congregation King David Memorial Garden
    Olam Tikvah Congregation King David Memorial Garden
    Sephardic Congregation-Mogen David Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Shaare Tikvah Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Shaare Tikvah King David Memorial Garden
    Shaare [Shahre?] Tefila King David Memorial Garden
    Shomre Emunah National Capitol Hebrew
    Southeast Hebrew (old) Congress Heights Cemeteries
    Southeast Hebrew Congregation (new) Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Spanish-Yom Tov National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Spanish-Yom Tov King David Memorial Garden
    Temple Beth Shalom Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery
    Temple Emanuel King David Memorial Garden
    Temple Israel Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Temple Sinai King David Memorial Garden
    Temple Solel King David Memorial Garden
    Tifereth Israel (new) Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Tifereth Israel (old) Congress Heights Cemeteries
    U. S. Naval Academy Crownsville Veterans Cem.
    Washington Hebrew Congregation Washington Heb. Congregation Cem.
    Workmen's Circle (new) Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
    Workmen's Circle (old) National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Yom Tov Society National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Young Israel Shomre Emunah National Capitol Heb. Cem.
    Young People's Synagogue King David Memorial Garden

    WASHINGTON AREA SYNAGOGUES

    DC data compiled by Bill Sher for JGSGW [2006] At the end of each synagogue's listing: C = Conservative, O = Orthodox and R = Reform, I = Independent

         Adas Israel Congregation, 2850 Quebec St., NW, Washington, DC 20008, (202) 362-4433, C
         Agudath Israel Of America Minyan, 1730 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Suite 504, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 835-0414
         Bet Mishpachah, P.O. Box 1410, Washington, DC 20013, (202) 833-1638, I
         The Capital Kehillah, (202) 320-6034, I
         DC Minyan, Washington DC JCC, 1529 16th St., NW, Washington DC 20036, I
         Fabrangen, 7750 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20012, (202) 595-9138, I
         Hill Havurah, Christ Our Shepard Church, 801 North Carolina Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20003
         Kesher Israel Congregation, 2801 N St., NW, Washington, DC 20007-3340, (202) 333-2337, O
         Minyan at the Department of Housing and Urban DeveloPMent, 451 Seventh St., S.W. Room 9156, Washington, DC 20410, (202) 708-0614, ext. 6061
         Ohev Sholom, 1600 Jonquil St., NW, Washington, DC 20012, (202) 882-7225, O
         Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St., NW, Washington, DC 20001, (202) 408-3100
         Temple Micah, 2829 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20007, (202) 342-9175, R
         Temple Sinai, 3100 Military Rd., NW, Washington, DC 20015, (202) 363-6394, R
         Tifereth Israel Congregation, 7701 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20012, (202) 882-1605, C
         The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism, P.O. Box 42014, Washington, DC 20015, (202) 686-1881, 0
         Union Station Neighborhood Mincha, Postal Square Building, 2 Massachusetts Ave., NE, Room 1858, Washington, DC 20001, (202) 502-8529 Jonathan First
         Washington Hebrew Congregation, 3935 Macomb St., NW, Washington, DC 20016, (202) 362-7100, R
         Yedid DC, c/o Am Kolel, PO Box 146, Beallsville, MD 20839, (301)-349-2799

    WASHINGTON AREA JEWISH FUNERAL SERVICES:
    Source: The Jewish Funeral Directors of America, http://www.jfda.org/listing_state_city.html#dc
         Torchinsky Hebrew Funeral Home,Inc., 254 Carroll Street, NW, Washington, DC 20012, (202)541-1001, (800) 500-5401

    Metropolitan Area:
         Danzansky-Goldberg Memorial Chapels: 1170 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD (301) 340-1400.
         Ives-Pearson (not exclusively Jewish) 2847 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA (703) 527-3016. Records date to 1930's. Went out of business in September 2000.
         Edward Sagel Funeral Direction, 1091 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD (301) 217-9400. Founded March 1994; only Jewish-owned funeral parlor in the
           Washington metropolitan area.
         Stein Hebrew Memorial Funeral Home, Inc., 232 Carroll Street, NW, Washington, DC. (202)726-4222. Records since 1970.

    LOCAL BURIAL ASSOCIATIONS - Source: The Washington Jewish Week
         CHESED SHEL EMES (Free Burial Society): Rabbi Saul Koss (301) 230-7294; Fax (301) 230-7272; TTY (301)-230-7260 Provides burial service for special needy cases.
         CHEVRA KADISHA OF WASHINGTON: Alan Sussman; (301) 681-6366 Community burial society makes arrangements and performs the ritual washing of the body.
         FUNERAL PRACTICES COMMITTEE: chair: Bob Housman; (202) 966-1545; comprised of synagogues who have burial committees.
         WOMEN'S CHEVRA KADISH: Linda Rishe (301) 585-2028; Community burial society makes arrangements and performs the ritual washing of the body.

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