Jewish Burial Guide
Greater Los Angeles

The area 39 cemeteries · 32 towns · numbers match the listings

How to read the listings

Each cemetery carries one of four labels, the same words used on everjewish.com. They describe how much has been confirmed — never quality, and never a ranking. Verification cannot change what a page says about a cemetery; it only adds the cemetery's own confirmed details.

Cemeteries by town nearest to Los Angeles first

Los Angeles, CA 7 mi from Los Angeles · 8 cemeteries

Commerce, CA 10 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Gardena, CA 11 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Altadena, CA 14 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Redondo Beach, CA 14 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Norwalk, CA 16 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Long Beach, CA 16 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 21 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Simi Valley, CA 27 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Westminster, CA 27 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Santa Clarita, CA 28 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Westlake Village, CA 30 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Santa Ana, CA 32 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Costa Mesa, CA 35 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Newport Beach, CA 39 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Palmdale, CA 39 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Ontario, CA 40 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Camarillo, CA 44 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Lancaster, CA 45 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Bloomington, CA 51 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Riverside, CA 52 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

San Buenaventura, CA 55 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Colton, CA 56 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

San Bernardino, CA 58 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Lake Elsinore, CA 61 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Menifee, CA 69 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Murrieta, CA 72 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

San Jacinto, CA 77 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Temecula, CA 77 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Banning, CA 81 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Barstow, CA 91 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Cathedral City, CA 106 mi from Los Angeles · 1 cemetery

Six questions for the week itself

Short enough to ask on the phone; the funeral home will ask most of them for you.

Planning ahead for the calm year, not the hard week

Most people first look at a cemetery in the worst week of their lives. A few questions asked calmly, years early, spare a family the hardest decisions at the hardest time.

Where. Is there a family plot, a synagogue cemetery that comes with membership, or a community cemetery selling to the public? Availability changes; a cemetery that was open a decade ago may be pre-sold only today.

Who may be buried there. Membership rules, interfaith policy, and section restrictions are the questions families most often discover too late. They are also the ones cemetery offices answer readily when asked in advance.

What the purchase actually conveys. A deed or a right of interment; whether it can be transferred, sold back, or passed to children; and what the cemetery does if the family moves away.

Costs, in writing. A plot, the opening and closing, perpetual care, the monument and its setting fee are usually separate lines. Ask for them together, on paper, from the cemetery and from the funeral home; ask whether the price is fixed once paid.

Perpetual care. Who maintains the grounds when the society that founded the cemetery is gone, and whether a fund exists for it. Small cemeteries deserve this question most.

The funeral home's Jewish practice. Tahara and a chevra kadisha, a shomer overnight, tachrichim and a kosher casket, what happens on Shabbat or Yom Tov, transport to Israel if that is the wish.

Write it down and tell someone. The cemetery, the deed or contract, the funeral home, the rabbi, and who to call first. Give a copy to the person who will actually make the calls.

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