Eternal Home Cemetery (1051 El Camino Real, Colma) OR Gan Shalom Cemetery (1100 Bear Creek Road, Briones) OR Home of Eternity (5000 Piedmont Ave, Oakland). 

Four times a year, SINAI MEMORIAL CHAPEL CHEVRA KADISHA receives discarded sacred items such as prayer books, siddurim, benchers, machzors, and tefillin that were once used for a holy purpose and now, for any reason, need to be discarded with dignity. Our staff then places these items for burial at Eternal Home Cemetery (1051 El Camino Real, Colma), Home of Eternity (5000 Piedmont Ave, Oakland) and Gan Shalom Cemetery (1100 Bear Creek Road, Briones). We will accept all eligible items at our cemeteries from 9am to 4pm on Monday, January 29, 2024 (and the time before that is October 30, 2024). Here are some additional guidelines to note:

BOX IN ADVANCE: Please have all items boxed neatly in cardboard.
BIODEGRADABLE: Sinai accepts paper, talesim (prayer shawls) and tefillin (phylacteries). Sinai does not accept plastic or laminate.
SORT IN ADVANCE: Please sort all items prior to arriving at the cemetery. There is not dignified space for sorting at the cemetery.
UNNECESSARY ITEMS: Skull caps, Jewish newspapers, Hebrew language books, flyers, or items that are secular in purpose are not eligible.
FREE: There is no charge to inter any of these eligible items with innate holiness to the residential community of Northern California
QUARTERLY DROP-OFF: Sinai provides this free service four (4) times per year. Items will not be received or accepted at other times. Items may not be dropped off at any of our funeral home offices or otherwise left unattended as it may compromise the respect that the items needing to be buried deserve. Please give us a call if you have an urgent need outside of the quarterly schedule so we can try and work with you.