Synagogues across America struggle everyday to keep their doors opened-rent paid, utilities paid, religious schools active, attracting new members to keep a Jewish place of worship active and operating. It is sad when a synagogue has to close its doors because the area no longer has enough Jewish people living in its area to sustain it. When this happens the synagogue is lucky and grateful when another temple steps in to take and give a home to the Torah’s of the closing temple. Equally important, is a that temple is willing to provide wall space (and transfer) the closing Shul’s “wall of remembrance” containing plaques with names of the deceased and that the bulb for the person is lit on their Yartzeit. Traditions that must be carried on. What if instead of closing doors for lack of support a Christian church stepped in to run the synagogue? Absurd, ludicrous even obscene as rules and regulations could be changed at will. This is what is happened(ing) and we the witness of SCI’s buy-out of our Jewish Cemeteries. With SCI No longer is the commandment in Judaism that there be equality in death adhered to. For example, at Groman Mortuary in Mission Hills, CA–above ground headstones and extravagant and gaudy 5’x4’grave-markers, rimmed in gold with photos of the dead, as would weeds, are disfiguring the sacred holy grounds of Eden Memorial. Repulsive. Greedy. Rogue Christians owning our holy, sacred resting place for our ancestors. (Above ground headstones were used in the east coast so loved ones could find and visit the graves of their loved ones despite two feet of snow on the ground.) In ground flat markers, similar in size, was the norm in Los Angeles until SCI moved in, around 2008, and changed all that. To add insult to injury, SCI disposed of having a Rabbi on the vicinity. SCI is a Wall Street pig who is now marketing cremation to Jews as an affordable alternative. May Hashem send us a miracle. Christians in charge of a Jewish Mortuary/Cemetary is
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