Descendants of people once buried in a cemetery cleared to build a retail center off Sprain Road gathered this morning to dedicate a memorial to the deceased.
Former congregants of the Congregation People of Righteousness, a disbanded synagogue formerly on Ingram Street near downtown, gathered with Jewish and government officials in the Costco parking lot to dedicate a nine-foot granite monument in honor of 94 adults and 147 children once buried in the synagogue’s cemetery.
The monument was built as part of a settlement agreement reached in 2005 between the retail center’s developer and the New York attorney general’s office.
State officials sued the developer when it was discovered that most of the children’s remains were never transferred out of the cemetery before construction on the retail center began. Morris Industrial Builders of Rutherford, N.J., the shopping center’s developer, claimed it disinterred all the remains it could find.
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The izraeli medina, should learn from us how to respect kevarim!!
Why is this the first i’m hearing about this?
First of all it’s a bizaon for the meisim for us to be driving all over them. what about in the store itself?
also kohanim can’t go there unless they know exactly where these meisim are buried
also al those who have gone there in the past have to ask mechila for trouncing on their graves.
I guess Kohanim will not be able to patronize the shopping center.
Real Estate brings in $$$, the dead do not.
Where is this Costco located? Cohanim will have to know NOT to go being that there is Tumas Meis! the Tumah goes Ad Lerakiah!
Thank you YW for pointing this out
so now lets ask the obvious question: can a Kohain shop at Costco? maybe thers a heter of ‘Hatorah chas al memono shel yisroel’?? some purim torah 4 thought.