Video: The Gladwyne Jewish Cemetery Project
A long-abandoned graveyard is getting more attention these days.
Those resolving to help with local volunteer efforts in 2013 have the option of assisting the restoration and maintenance of a historic but little-known cemetery. Community leaders led by Beth David Reform Congregation have organized a nonprofit cleanup of the long-abandoned Jewish cemetery in Gladwyne known as Har Hazeitim. From Beth David's YouTube video description: An historic final resting place for hundreds of Jews, "Har Hazeitim" was abandoned many years ago by a Jewish burial society and rediscovered only within the last dozen or so years. It is located in suburban Philadelphia in a thickly wooded area, coincidentally near a synagogue which happened to move to Gladwyne in the early 1980's, Beth David Reform Congregation. Beth David…
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