The Jewish Joint Burial Society (JJBS), founded in 1969, provides funerals for synagogue members as part of the benefits of belonging to a synagogue. Currently, the JJBS covers over 17,000 members in 43 synagogues (30 Reform, 9 Masorti, 3 Liberal and 2 Independent). The Society provides funerals for congregants of member synagogues.
This can be in a conventional grave with headstone in the Western Cemetery at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire where the JJBS has burial rights. This primarily serves the London synagogues; in the rest of the country synagogues use dedicated Jewish areas in municipal cemeteries. We can bury Jewish and non-Jewish partners in a Woodland or lawn setting in the JJBS Woodland Cemetery at Cheshunt.
This can be in a conventional grave with headstone in the Western Cemetery at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire where the JJBS has burial rights. This primarily serves the London synagogues; in the rest of the country synagogues use dedicated Jewish areas in municipal cemeteries. We can bury Jewish and non-Jewish partners in a Woodland or lawn setting in the JJBS Woodland Cemetery at Cheshunt.
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The members of the Joint Jewish Burial Society are 28 London Synagogues and 15 National Synagogues. The Society is a Company limited by Guarantee and a Registered Charity. The Society is governed by a Board of Trustees, comprising the five honorary officers Chair, Vice Chair, Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Secretary and Hon.
As a member of one of our synagogues, your membership of the JJBS burial scheme is automatic. Your synagogue pays an annual, non-refundable fee to JJBS both to cover the actual cost of the funeral and the plot and to provide and maintain the cemeteries at Cheshunt. If you live within the Home Counties area this provides you with the right either to a burial at Cheshunt or a cremation at Golders Green Crematorium.
Burials are usually at Cheshunt and cremations are at Golders Green. If a congregant wishes to bury outside London then a maximum contribution of 2,500 will be made towards the cost. Removal of the body to the undertaker's premises (to include undertakers costs) and onto the cemetery or crematorium.
JJBS has a large dedicated area in this cemetery which is run by the Western Foundation under Orthodox Jewish guidelines. There is a small Memorial garden adjacent to the Western which may be visited during opening hours. This is run by the JJBS. The Woodland Cemetery allows members to choose to be buried in an environmentally-friendly way, in a beautiful natural environment, surrounded by newly planted trees.
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