Our Mission
The mission of the Friends of the Gladwyne Jewish Memorial Cemetery is to ensure dignity for those interred at Har Hasetim and their families while honoring the historical, cultural and natural significance of the site. We will achieve our mission by working together with volunteers and with the support of community partners primarily through restoration and maintenance of the graves and natural features, sharing the story of the cemetery, and providing access to information about those interred at the site.
Our Purpose
The purpose of the Friends of the Gladwyne Memorial Jewish Cemetery is:
- To care for, maintain, restore, manage, operate and secure the property known as the Gladwyne Jewish Memorial Cemetery, located in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania on behalf of the owner of the Cemetery, Beth David Reform Congregation.
- To provide and maintain a suitable religious burial ground for those persons buried in the Cemetery.
- To stimulate public awareness and appreciation for the Cemetery as a historical site and to solicit the participation of the community in its maintenance and preservation.
- To receive and administer funds for the aforesaid purposes.
Our Goals for 2016
- Creating a complete accessible on-line database of all burials, as well as an historical timeline
- Stabilizing the property and prioritizing an area for progress toward a final condition based on a master plan that we are developing.
- Establish a development process including programming, membership and outreach.
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Officers
Stephen Anderer, President
Stephen F. Finkelman, Vice President and Acting Secretary
Trustees
Susan Anderer
Todd Borow
Deborah Cassidy
Jill Cooper
Marji Hendler
Sam Rosen
Neil Sukonik
Friends of the Gladwyne Jewish Memorial Cemetery 