10 funeral homes and crematories serving Jewish families in Maryland, listed by city and county. Each listing names the services the home offers, the faiths it serves and the languages its staff speak, with its address, its phone and a link to its general price list where it posts one.
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10 funeral homes and crematories serving Jewish families in Maryland
Arbutus funeral home of the Ambrose family, serving the community since 1936, with a second home in Lansdowne; both are among the closest funeral homes to BWI-Marshall airport. Its funerals under Jewish law include tahara by a chevra kaddisha when the family asks, a shomer and all-wood caskets.
Baltimore Jewish funeral home, family owned and operated since 1892, with two chapels, a parlor and webcasting of services, and arrangement offices in Columbia and Annapolis. It was the first Maryland funeral home certified by the Green Burial Council and arranges burial in Israel.
Finksburg funeral home the Eline family opened in 2015, with a catering center and a reception room for more than 150 guests. Services can be livestreamed and recorded, and cremations take place at the family's own crematory in Hampstead.
Hampstead funeral home with the Eline family's crematory on the premises, which families may inspect and where they may witness the cremation. It cremates one person at a time under a ten-step identification process, and services can be livestreamed and recorded.
Lansdowne funeral home of the Ambrose family, which has served the community since 1936 and keeps a second home in Arbutus; both are among the closest funeral homes to BWI-Marshall airport. Its funerals under Jewish law include tahara by a chevra kaddisha when the family asks, a shomer and all-wood caskets.
Remodeled Reisterstown funeral home with a reception room, run by the Eline family, whose firm began in Reisterstown in 1863. Services can be livestreamed and recorded, and cremations take place at the family's own crematory in Hampstead.
Rockville funeral home rooted in Jewish tradition, tracing to a Washington, D.C. funeral parlor founded in 1920, serving Washington, Maryland and Northern Virginia from a 6,000-square-foot building opened in August 2024. It owns a crematory in Woodbine, was among the first Maryland homes to meet the Green Burial Council's criteria, and arranges human composting through Recompose.
Rockville Orthodox Jewish funeral home, the first in the Washington D.C. area, whose care of the deceased is supervised by Shomer Shabbat staff and which does no work on Shabbat or Yom Tov. It offers no cremation or embalming, uses taharah and tachrichim every time, and ships the deceased for burial in Israel, handling the consulate documents and flights.
Silver Spring funeral home founded in 1873 and contracted by the Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington, with private facilities for tahara and shmira. Its 250-seat chapel has a projector and sound system, and it serves Montgomery, Prince George's and Howard counties, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Sykesville funeral home at its present site since 1947, with an on-site crematory added in 2004 that families may inspect and where they may witness the cremation. It has the Queen Room, a gathering space for families, and partnered with Eline Funeral Home in 2026.
