The area 33 cemeteries · 24 towns · numbers match the listings
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San Mateo, CA · 1 · 12 mi
Oakland, CA · 2, 3 · 12 mi
Colma, CA · 4, 5, 6, 7 · 15 mi
Half Moon Bay, CA · 8 · 16 mi
Berkeley, CA · 9 · 19 mi
El Cerrito, CA · 10 · 23 mi
Lafayette, CA · 11 · 25 mi
Livermore, CA · 12, 13 · 25 mi
Concord, CA · 14 · 28 mi
Martinez, CA · 15 · 28 mi
San Jose, CA · 16, 17, 18 · 28 mi
San Rafael, CA · 19 · 32 mi
Benicia, CA · 20 · 33 mi
Vallejo, CA · 21 · 35 mi
Novato, CA · 22, 23 · 39 mi
Soquel, CA · 24 · 44 mi
Santa Cruz, CA · 25 · 44 mi
Morgan Hill, CA · 26 · 45 mi
Napa, CA · 27 · 49 mi
Petaluma, CA · 28 · 50 mi
Gilroy, CA · 29 · 53 mi
St. Helena, CA · 30, 31 · 64 mi
Sebastopol, CA · 32 · 65 mi
Santa Rosa, CA · 33 · 65 mi
Cemeteries by town nearest to San Francisco & the Bay Area first
San Mateo, CA 12 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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1Gan Hazikaron at Skylawn Memorial Park
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Skylawn Memorial Park, Highway 92 at Skyline Blvd, San Mateo, CA 94402 · (650) 341-7701 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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Oakland, CA 12 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 2 cemeteries
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2Home of Eternity Cemetery & Mausoleum
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5000 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA 94611 · (925) 962-3636 · Standalone Jewish cemetery · Community · Sinai Memorial Chapel
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3Home of Peace Cemetery
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4712 Fairfax Ave, Oakland, CA 94601 · (510) 482-1147 · Standalone Jewish cemetery · Congregational · Beth Jacob Congregation
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Colma, CA 15 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 4 cemeteries
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4Hills of Eternity Memorial Park
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1301 El Camino Real, Colma, CA 94014 · (650) 755-4700 · Standalone Jewish cemetery · Jewish Cemeteries of San Francisco
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5Eternal Home Cemetery
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1051 El Camino Real, Colma, CA 94014 · (650) 755-5236 · reservation@sinaichapel.org · Standalone Jewish cemetery · Orthodox
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6Home of Peace Cemetery
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1299 El Camino Real · (650) 755-4700
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7Salem Memorial Park
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1171 El Camino Real, Colma, CA 94014 · (650) 755-4700 · Standalone Jewish cemetery · Jewish Cemeteries of San Francisco
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Half Moon Bay, CA 16 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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8Skylawn Funeral Park
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888 Lifemark Rd, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 · (650) 592-6026 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery · Peninsula Temple Beth El
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Berkeley, CA 19 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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9Gan Shalom
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1630 Bancroft Way · (510) 848-3298 · info@sinaichapel.org · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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El Cerrito, CA 23 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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10Sunset View Cemetery & Mortuary
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101 Colusa Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530 · (510) 525-5111 · sunsetviewmortuary@gmail.com
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Lafayette, CA 25 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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11Oakmont Memorial Park & Mortuary
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2099 Reliez Valley Rd, Lafayette, CA 94549 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery · Commercial · Oakmont Memorial Park & Mortuary (commercial); sections allocated to Congregation Temple Isaiah
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Livermore, CA 25 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 2 cemeteries
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12Magen David Memorial Gardens
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3656 Las Colinas Altamont Rd, Livermore, CA 94551 · (925) 474-4625 · info@magendavidatmontevista.com · Standalone Jewish cemetery
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13Roselawn Cemetery
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Livermore, CA (street address not published on site) · (510) 581-1206 ext. 2 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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Concord, CA 28 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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14Memory Gardens Cemetery
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Concord, CA · (925) 685-3464
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Martinez, CA 28 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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15Gan Shalom Cemetery
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1100 Bear Creek Rd, Briones, CA 94553 · (925) 228-3636 · bcohn@sinaichapel.org · Standalone Jewish cemetery
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San Jose, CA 28 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 3 cemeteries
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16Beth David Memorial Garden at Oak Hill Memorial Park
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300 Curtner Ave, San Jose, CA 95125 · (408) 257-3333 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery · Congregational · Congregation Beth David (Saratoga)
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17Home of Peace Cemetery at Oak Hill Memorial Park
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300 Curtner Ave, San Jose, CA 95125 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery · Congregational · Temple Emanu-El (San Jose)
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18Los Gatos Memorial Park
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San Jose, CA (street address not retrievable) · (408) 356-4151 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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San Rafael, CA 32 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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19Mount Tamalpais Cemetery
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2500 Fifth Ave, San Rafael, CA 94901 · (415) 459-2500 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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Benicia, CA 33 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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20Benicia City Cemetery
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Benicia, CA (Solano County) · (707) 746-4285
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Vallejo, CA 35 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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21Sunrise Memorial Cemetery
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2201 Sacramento Street · (707) 643-5190 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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Novato, CA 39 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 2 cemeteries
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22Community Jewish Cemetery
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695 De Long Avenue Suite 101, Novato, CA 94945 (Chabad of Novato office) · (415) 878-6770 · Standalone Jewish cemetery · Chabad
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23Valley Memorial Park
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650 Bugeia Lane, Novato, CA 94945 · (415) 897-9609 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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Soquel, CA 44 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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24Beit Olam Cemetery
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550 Soquel San Jose Rd, Soquel, CA 95073 · (831) 479-3444 · Standalone Jewish cemetery · Temple Beth El (Aptos)
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Santa Cruz, CA 44 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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25Home of Peace Cemetery
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422 Meder Street · (831) 201-4738 · cemeterian@tbeaptos.org
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Morgan Hill, CA 45 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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26Gan Emeth
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Gan Emet is located at Gavilan Hills Memorial Park, 1000 First Street, Gilroy, CA. Congregation Emeth: 17835 Monterey Street, Morgan Hill, CA 95037 · (408) 778-8200 · ritual@emeth.net · Standalone Jewish cemetery
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Napa, CA 49 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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27Napa Valley Memorial Park
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2383 Napa Vallejo Highway · (707) 255-3433 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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Petaluma, CA 50 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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28B'nai Israel Cemetery
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430 Magnolia Ave, Petaluma, CA 94952 (Cypress Hill Memorial Park); mailing P.O. Box 2069, Petaluma, CA 94953 · (707) 762-6683 · Standalone Jewish cemetery · Congregational · B'nai Israel
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Gilroy, CA 53 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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29Gavilan Hills Memorial Park
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Cemetery: 1000 1st Street, Gilroy, CA. Office: 129 4th Street, Gilroy, CA. · (408) 847-4040 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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St. Helena, CA 64 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 2 cemeteries
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30Ner Tamid Jewish Cemetery
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2461 Spring Street · (707) 963-3544 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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31St. Helena Cemetery
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2461 Spring Street, St. Helena, CA 94574 · (707) 963-3544 · info@sainthelenacemetery.com · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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Sebastopol, CA 65 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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32Ner Shalom Progressive Cemetery
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Ner Shalom section, Pleasant Hills Cemetery (Burbank Gardens), Sebastopol, CA. Congregation: 85 La Plaza, Cotati, CA 94931 · (707) 664-8622 · (707) 823-5042 · shalom@sonic.net · Jewish section within a larger cemetery
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Santa Rosa, CA 65 mi from San Francisco & the Bay Area · 1 cemetery
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33Santa Rosa Memorial Park
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1900 Franklin Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 · (707) 542-1580 · Jewish section within a larger cemetery · Congregational · Santa Rosa Memorial Park
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Six questions for the week itself
Short enough to ask on the phone; the funeral home will ask most of them for you.
Is a plot available now, and where in the grounds?Ask to hear the section named; ask whether a spouse can be buried alongside later.
Who may be buried here?Members only, any Jew, a non-Jewish spouse — and whether the rabbi's ruling on Jewish status is required.
What is the total, in writing?Plot, opening and closing, perpetual care, and any Sunday or winter charges, on one page.
What does the funeral home charge, in writing?The itemised statement they are required to give — tahara, shomer, tachrichim, the casket, transport.
Who is the chevra kadisha, and is a shomer arranged?The funeral home should answer at once; if it cannot, the rabbi can.
What are the cemetery's rules for the monument?Size, material, Hebrew text, and when it may be set — a question for later, but the answer decides a purchase now.
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.
Words you will hear
Chevra kadishaThe burial society — volunteers who prepare the body for burial with tahara and stay with it until the funeral. Every community has one; the funeral home knows how to reach it.
TaharaThe washing and preparation of the body by the chevra kadisha, done with prayers and in privacy. It is a kindness the deceased cannot repay, which is why it is considered among the highest.
Shomer / shemiraThe person who stays with the deceased, reading psalms, from death until burial — so that the body is never left alone.
TachrichimPlain white linen shrouds, the same for everyone. A Jewish funeral home supplies them.
AronThe casket — plain wood, without metal, so that it returns to the earth. Sometimes called a kosher casket.
LevayaThe funeral, literally 'accompanying' — the service and the walk to the grave. Mourners and friends help fill the grave; it is the last kindness.
KriahThe tearing of a garment or a ribbon by the mourners before the funeral, a visible sign of loss.
HespedThe eulogy — words about the person, spoken at the funeral by the rabbi and often by family.
KaddishThe mourners' prayer, said at services in the months after a death and each year on the yahrzeit. How long it is said, and in what setting, varies between communities and traditions; it is usually said with others present, which is one reason the community matters.
ShivaThe days of mourning after the burial — traditionally seven — when mourners stay home and the community comes to them: with meals, with prayers, with company. How shiva is observed, and how Shabbat and festivals affect it, varies by community and family; the rabbi will guide you.
SheloshimThe thirty days after burial — a lighter period of mourning after shiva, when mourners return to daily life but, in many traditions, not yet to celebrations.
YahrzeitThe anniversary of the death on the Hebrew calendar, marked each year — commonly with Kaddish, a memorial candle, and a visit to the grave.
Matzevah / unveilingThe gravestone, and the short ceremony when it is set — commonly within the first year; customs on timing vary. Cemetery rules govern size, material and setting; ask before ordering.
KeverThe grave. Visiting is customary before Rosh Hashanah, on the yahrzeit, and at the unveiling; the small stone left on the monument says someone came.