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Congregation Sherith Israel Cemetery

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Location	:	Parma Heights, Cuyahoga County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.4125697, -81.7208435
Description	:	Workmen's Circle Cemetery, also known as Lincoln Road Cemetery opened on December 6, 1920, on four acres. Besides the section for Workmen's Circle, Warrensville Center Synagogue/Kehilla Yaacov, there is also a section for the benevolent association Mezricher and Independent Mizreich Aid. Details are sketchy, but previous caretakers claim the cemetery was called Lincoln because that was the name of the street before it became West 54th Street, and the cemetery was founded in December 1920. At that time, Lincoln Road was unpaved and on rainy days it was impassable for horses bearing a hearse. men had to carry the caskets down... Read More	Workmen's Circle Cemetery, also known as Lincoln Road Cemetery opened on December 6, 1920, on four acres. Besides the section for Workmen's Circle, Warrensville Center Synagogue/Kehilla Yaacov, there is also a section for the benevolent association Mezricher and Independent Mizreich Aid. Details are sketchy, but previous caretakers claim the cemetery was called Lincoln because that was the name of the street before it became West 54th Street, and the cemetery was founded in December 1920. At that time, Lincoln Road was unpaved and on rainy days it was impassable for horses bearing a hearse. men had to carry the caskets down State Road to Lincoln Road and into the cemetery. Even in 1987 mention was made to drawbacks to burials - being there was no road connecting Theota Avenue to the cemetery entrance 1,000 yards away. The cemetery expanded since then. My family is buried in a section of the Lincoln Cemetery called Congregation Sherith Israel which as of 2018 is being cared for by a synagogue called Oheb Zedek Cedar Sinai Synagogue (23749 Cedar Rd, Beachwood, OH 44122). Brief History of Synagogue Mergers that includes how Sherith Israel became Oheb Zedek Cedar Sinai Synagogue. After World War I, the Mt. Pleasant area appealed to many Jewish families. As early as 1916, a small group started a Minyan at the Axelrod home on 118th Street between Kinsman and Union Avenues. They attracted Lithuanian Jews and ardent early Zionists and together they erected the N'Vai Zedek Congregation in 1922. As Jews settled in Upper Kinsman, synagogues followed. In 1919, the Levine family moved to East 149th and Kinsman, and a Minyan began at their home, which developed into the Ohel Yavne Congregation. In 1920, Polish and Austrian Jews started the Tifereth Israel in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. In 1923, the Sherith Israel Congregation developed to server the flourishing neighborhood around Kinsman and 118th Street. In 1930, Jews in upper Kinsman began to erect a combined synagogue and community center on a tract of land at Kinsman Road and East 147th Street. Chartered as B'nai Jacob Kol Israel, it was known as the Kinsman Jewish Center. The flight to the suburbs following World War II weakened Cleveland's older Jewish neighborhoods. By the early 1950s, the Tetiever Congregation, which had moved from Woodland to Linn Drive in 1926, determined to relocate further east. In 1957 the Tetiever Congregation constructed a synagogue on Warrensville Center Rd. In 1959 a merger of three synagogues took place. The Kinsman Jewish Center and the N'Vai Zedek congregations also realized that they must move on and Rabbi Jacob Muskin became the spiritual leader of Warrensville Center Synagogue. In 1970, Sherith Israel and Sherith Jacob joined the three synagogues that had merged into Warrensville Center Synagogue. The total grew to eight in 1972 when Ohel Jacob, Ohel Yavne, and Tifereth Israel, which had previously merged as Shaker-Lee in 1959, voted to become equal partners. For many years, the combined congregation also had been home to a number of Holocaust survivors who brought their own traditions, adding flavor to the synagogue family. In 1990, following the death of Rabbi Jacob Muskin who had served the Shul for 40 years, the synagogue adopted the name Kehillat Yaakov. The name was chosen in recognition of Rabbi Muskin's ability to unify all the component congregations who had individual but not one unifying Hebrew name. "Kehillat" means "Congregation" and "Yaakov" is Hebrew for "Jacob."

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Congregation Sherith Israel Cemetery is located at 5100 Theota Avenue between 54th & 50th Streets Cleveland, OH Parma Heights, Cuyahoga County ,Ohio , 44129USA.
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