Raking an Effort: Brandeis Society helps clean up Jewish cemetery
The Brooklyn Brandeis Society held its inaugural Day of Service event where its members headed to Silver Lake Cemetery in Staten Island to help clean up on Sunday morning.
The group joined volunteers from the Hebrew Free Burial Association and spent Sunday morning at the Silver Lake Cemetery raking leaves and picking up garbage and debris from the historic Jewish cemetery.
“I became aware of the Hebrew Free Burial Association (HFBA) from making donations to it,” said Justice Miriam Cyrulnik, president of the Brooklyn Brandeis Society (BBS). “They were sponsoring this day to come and clean up the cemetery. I figured that this was something that our members would be interested in, and they certainly responded positively and a lot showed up today despite it being a holiday weekend.”