A Jewish Way to Remember Babies Lost Before Birth

At the end of February—a lifetime ago—I visited the Memory Garden in Colma, just outside San Francisco. Colma is a town unlike any other. Its 2-square-mile area contains 17 cemeteries—a million dead inhabitants for its 1,500 living ones. Hence its nickname, “The City of the Silent.” Four of the cemeteries are Jewish; Wyatt Earp (whose wife, Josephine Marcus, was Jewish) and Levi Strauss are buried here. Read Full Article »