Ahavas Israel Cemetery is located at 1801 Garfield Avenue in

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. It is the cemetery for the

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Ahavas Israel congregation. The Ahavas Achim Cemetery was created in 1916 by members of the Ahavas Achim and the Workmen's Circle. The Ahavas Achim was a conservative community founded by Orthodox members that had split from Grand Rapid's Temple Beth Israel in 1908. The

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was a service organisation for Jewish men. Temple Beth Israel and Ahavas Achim eventually merged in 1947, having begun discussions on a merger in 1937 prompted by the financial pressures of maintaining two Orthodox congregations in the midst of the

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. The cemetery was renamed the Ahavas Israel Cemetery in 1962.

References

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External links

Ahavas Israel
(Grand Rapids, MI) – cemetery contact
International Jewish Cemetery Project
at International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS)
JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)
at

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