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"There are 2 Maimonides Cemeteries, both owned and operated by the Maimonides Benevolent Society: the first was opened circa 1850 and is at 895 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn and the second was opened in 1922 and is on Elmont Road, immediately north of Beth David Cemetery (it is separate from Beth David) in the Hamlet of Elmont, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County.
The office for both is located at the Elmont location and
can be reached by calling 516-775-6222.
While the Maimonides Benevolent Society was created by German Jews, mostly Reform Jews, in the mid 1800s as a mutual aid and burial society, the cemetery has always operated according to the strictest interpretation of halacha (Jewish law)."
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