Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery is the largest Jewish cemetery organization in California.
| Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries | |
|---|---|
 The Heritage Mosaic at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills | |
| Details | |
| Established | 1953 |
| Location | Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California and Simi Valley, California |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 34.15210°N 118.31907°W |
| Style | Jewish |
| Owned by | Sinai Temple of Los Angeles |
| Website | Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries |
History
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, owned by Sinai Temple of Los Angeles, refers to two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The original cemetery property is located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. The cemetery was originally established in 1953 by the neighboring Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery. In 1959, it became an exclusively Jewish cemetery, and in 1967 it was acquired by Sinai Temple, the oldest and largest Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles,[1][2] which dedicated its mortuary and cemetery resources to all members of the Jewish community in and around the city. Numerous stars and celebrities from the entertainment industry are interred in the park, which is located down the street from Warner Bros studios.
Artwork
Throughout the different sections of Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills, one encounters various forms of artwork including mosaics, sculpture, fountains and carvings. The most noticeable is the Heritage Mosaic, which, at 45 by 30 feet (13.7 m × 9.1 m), depicts a panorama of the Jewish experience in America and is made up of more than 2.5 million pieces of hand-cut Venetian glass. The park also features a memorial monument dedicated to the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust by renowned Jewish artist, Bernard Zakheim. The six three-dimensional figures, all rendered in burnt and tortured wood, represent six heroic Jewish figures. Rising from the stones of the memorial is a flame that symbolizes the eternal spirit of the six million and the rebirth of Israel from the ashes of the Holocaust.[3]
Expansion to Simi Valley, California
In 1997, faced with dwindling space at the original Hollywood Hills location and recognizing the need for Jewish burial properties for future generations, Mount Sinai Memorial Parks expanded by opening its second memorial park, Mount Sinai Simi Valley.
Genizah and book burials
Mount Sinai offers a Genizah program where members of the community can drop off worn out siddurim (prayer books), Torah scrolls, tallit, tzitzit, tefellin and other sacred materials which contain the Hebrew name of God, for burial at a later date. Several times each year, Mount Sinai invites school groups to Mount Sinai Simi Valley, where they will conduct a burial service for the books while learning about this ancient Jewish tradition.
Notable interments
A
- Berle Adams (1917–2009), music producer[4]
- Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900–1962), Manhattan brothel operator and author of House is Not a Home
- Irwin Allen (1916–1991), director, producer, writer[5]
- Art Aragon (1927–2008), boxer[6]
- Danny Arnold (1925–1995), film actor/editor/writer
- Eleanor Audley (1905–1991), actress, voice-over artist
B
- Dave Barry (1918–2001), actor and comedian
- Frances Bay (1919–2011), actress
- Herschel Bernardi (1923–1986), actor
- Sara Berner (1912–1969), actress
- Zina Bethune (1945–2012), actress[7]
- Eli Broad (1933–2021), businessman and philanthropist
- Georgia Brown (1933–1992), actress and singer
- Edward Buzzell (1895–1985), director
- Joan Bilson (1938–2019), teacher and art collector
C
- Sid Caesar (1922–2014), comedian and actor
- Brett Cantor (1967–1993), music label executive, concert promoter and nightclub owner
- Charlie Cantor (1898–1966), actor
- June Carroll (1917–2004), lyricist, singer and actress
- Virginia Christine (1920–1996), actress, voice artist
- Lee J. Cobb (1911–1976), actor[5]
- Martin Cohan (1932–2010), television writer and producer
- Ruth Cohen (1930–2008), actress (Seinfeld)
- Maxine Cooper (1924–2009), actress
- Stanley Cortez (1908–1997), cinematographer
- Irving Cottler (1918–1989), drummer
- Warren Cowan (1921–2008), publicist
- Harry Crane (1914–1999), American comedy writer
- Rosalind Cron (1925–2021), jazz musician, last surviving member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm of the 1940s
D
- Mack David (1912–1993), composer
E
- Cass Elliot (1941–1974), singer for The Mamas & the Papas[5]
- Ziggy Elman (1911–1968), big-band musician and composer
F
- Lee Farr (1927–2017), actor
- Ben Feigin (1975–2022), television producer
- Fritz Feld (1900–1993), actor
- Norman Fell (1924–1998), actor
- Totie Fields (1930–1978), comedian[5]
- Gerald Finnerman (1931–2011), cinematographer
- Bob Flanagan (1952–1996), performance artist and writer
- Dave Fleischer (1894–1979), film director and producer
- Helen Forrest (1917–1999), singer
- Bonnie Franklin (1944–2013), actress
- Karl Freund (1890–1969), cinematographer
- Murray Fromson (1929–2018), journalist
G
- Linda Gary (1944–1995), actress, voice actress
- Bruce Geller (1930–1978), producer[8]
- Benny Goldberg (1918–2001), boxer
- Solomon W. Golomb (1932–2016), mathematician
- Saul Gorss (1908–1966), actor
- Michael Gordon (1909–1993), stage actor, stage and film director, maternal grandfather of Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- David Groh (1939–2008), actor
- Fred Grossinger (1936–1995), actor
H
- Billy Halop (1920–1976), actor
- Larry Harmon (1925–2008), actor and comedian (aka Bozo the Clown)
- Nat Hiken (1914–1968), award-winning writer, director, producer
- Arthur Hiller (1923–2016), director
- Gregg Hoffman (1963–2005), producer
- Peter Hurkos (1911–1988), psychic
J
- Milt Josefsberg (1911–1987), screenwriter
K
- Irma Kalish (1924–2021), television writer
- Eddie Kane (1889–1969), actor
- Leonard Katzman (1927–1996), film and TV writer, producer, and director[9]
- Donald Bruce Kaufman (1922–1983), businessman
- Walter Kent (1911–1994), composer and conductor
- Ruth Klüger (1931–2020), Professor Emerita of German Studies
- Arnold Kopelson (1935–2018), film producer
- Suzanne Krull (1966–2013), actress
L
- David Landsberg (1944–2018), TV and film comedy writer, producer and actor[10]
- John Larch (1914–2005), actor
- Sydney Lassick (1922–2003), actor
- Pinky Lee (1907–1993), actor and comedian
- Robert Q. Lewis (1920–1991), television personality, actor, and game show host
- Abraham M. Lurie (1923–2010), real estate developer
M
- Bruce Malmuth (1934–2005), director
- Ross Martin (1920–1981), actor
- Michael Masser (1941–2015), musician
- Sid Melton (1917–2011), actor
- Laurence Merrick (1926–1977), director and author
- Irving Mills (1894–1985), composer
- Marvin Minoff (1931–2009), film and television producer, executive producer of The Nixon Interviews
- Laurie Mitchell (1928–2018), actress
N
- Claudette Nevins (1937–2020), actress
- Lawrence R. Newman (1925–2011), deaf activist, educator and author
- Bill Novey (1948–1991), Special Effects Master/Head of Special Effects at Walt Disney Imagineering/co-founder of Art & Technology, Inc.
P
- Daniel Pearl (1963–2002), journalist
- Ruth Pearl (1935–2021), mother of Daniel Pearl
- Lefty Phillips (1919–1972), baseball coach and manager
- Ted Post (1918–2013), film director
R
- Martin Ragaway (1923–1989), motion picture and television writer
- Peter Mark Richman (1927–2021), actor
- Don Rickles (1926–2017), comedian and actor
- Larry Rickles (1970–2011), screenwriter, son of Don Rickles
- Mark Robson (1913–1978), director
- Shorty Rogers (1924–1994), jazz musician
- David Rose (1910–1990), composer
- Steven Rothenberg (1958–2009), film studio executive (Lions Gate, Artisan Entertainment)
- Mo Rothman (1919–2011), studio executive who persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States in 1972[11]
- Tibor Rubin (1929–2015), Medal of Honor recipient
S
- Bob Saget (1956–2022), actor, comedian, and television host.[12] The first host of America's Funniest Home Videos
- Walter Scharf (1910–2003), composer
- Bob Shad (1920–1985), music producer[13]
- Isaac Shepher (1948–2022), Life Alert founder
- Al Sherman (1897–1973), songwriter
- Mitzi Shore (1930–2018), comedy club owner
- Jan Shutan (1932–2021), actress
- Phil Silvers (1911–1985), actor and comedian[5]
- Fred Silverman (1937–2020), television executive and producer
- Sidney Skolsky (1905–1983), Hollywood reporter
- Hillel Slovak (1962–1988), guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Howard Smit (1911–2009), film make-up artist who led efforts to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup[14]
- Arleen Sorkin (1955–2023), actress best known for voicing Harley Quinn in Batman: The Animated Series
- Milton Sperling (1912–1988), American film producer and screenwriter
- Wendie Jo Sperber (1958–2005), actress
- Florence Stanley (1924–2003), actress
- Dawn Steel (1946–1997), film executive and producer
- Leonard B. Stern (1923–2011), television producer, director and writer
- Leonard Stogel (1934–1979), music business manager, promoter, record producer and executive. Victim of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191
- Harold J. Stone (1913–2005), actor
T
- Iwao Takamoto (1925–2007), animator
- Brandon Tartikoff (1949–1997), television executive, former president of NBC
- Irving Taylor (1914–1983), songwriter
- Mel Taylor (1933–1996), musician, drummer and percussionist for the Ventures
- Dick Tufeld (1926–2012), actor, announcer, narrator
- Mark Tulin (1948–2011), bass guitarist
- Saul Turteltaub (1932–2020), television writer and producer
V
- Bobby Van (1928–1980), actor and dancer
W
- Joseph Wapner (1919–2017), judge, television personality. The first judge to preside over The People's Court
- Bea Wain (1917–2017), singer
- Danny Wells (1941–2013), actor, voice actor and composer
- Paul G. Wexler (1929–1979), actor
- Jesse White (1917–1997), actor
- Harry Wilson (1897–1978), actor
- David Winters (1939–2019), actor, dancer, choreographer
- Jay Wolpert (1942–2022), television producer and screenwriter
- Than Wyenn (1919–2015), actor
Z
- Howard Zieff (1927–2009), director, advertising photographer[15]
References
- Ruth Stroud, "Westward Expansion", Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, March 20, 1997.
- Tracy Valeri, "Mount Sinai Park Dedication Set", Los Angeles Daily News, March 15, 1997.
- photo and additional information
- "Berle Adams dies at 92; co-founder of Mercury Records and an MCA executive". Los Angeles Times. August 29, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
- Hollywood and the Best of Los Angeles, p. 572
- Los Angeles Times via Legacy.com
- Diorio, Carl. "Steve Rothenberg dies at 50".
- Music Theatre International
- Los Angeles Times
- "David Landsberg, 'CPO Sharkey' Actor and 'Cosby' Writer, Dies at 73". The Hollywood Reporter. August 8, 2018.
- Barnes, Mike (September 23, 2011). "Mo Rothman, Who Engineered the Return of Charlie Chaplin in the '70s, Dies". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
- Garvey, Marianne (January 14, 2022). "Bob Saget will be laid to rest Friday". CNN. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
- "Record Producer Robert Shad Dies". Observer–Reporter. March 18, 1985. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
- Barnes, Mike (August 4, 2009). "Makeup artist Howard J. Smit dies". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2009.
- Jewish Journal