When people came to America they still knew the ways of the old country and followed their natural cultural. This extended to burial practices. These graves are tight together, and one can not step on the ground proper.On many of the stones there are enamel photographs (a good number have been broken). The script is English, and Yiddish in Hebraic letters. The stele are all thick.
This section of the cemetery is that of an Orthodox congregation. This stone has two lions of Judah, here that are standing, on some they are resting. The almost universal appearance of the Magen (Star) David is here too. The third element is the tablets of the Law, the Decalogue, Ten Commandments.
different presentation of the same symbols
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