Volunteer Program
HFBA manages a Cemetery Clean-Up Project, where groups come to Silver Lake Cemetery, and participate in its upkeep. The volunteers rake leaves and clear debris, demonstrating that the cemetery has not been forgotten, and that the Jewish Community realizes its obligation to its earlier generations.
Among the groups that have participated in the Cemetery Clean-Up Project are:
- HAFTR (Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaways)
- Brooklyn Heights Group of Synagogue Youth (BHGSY)
- Solomon Schechter School of Westchester High School
- Yavneh Academy
- North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School
- Yeshivat Har-Torah
- Hebrew Academy of Nassau County
- Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (Yeshiva University High School for Boys)
- Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls
- SAR Academy
- Yeshiva of North Jersey
- Solomon Schechter School of Queens
- Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School
- Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls
- DRS High School
- Brooklyn College Hillel
- North Shore Hebrew Academy High School
Read more about this topic: Hebrew Free Burial Association
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