Our Office Locations

Northbrook Office-3100 Dundee Road #801 (Lanwehr Rd 1/2 block North of Dundee)

3100 Dundee Rd. #801
Northbrook, IL  60062

Not your typical funeral establishment!

In 1989, the storefront operation that Lloyd Mandel opened in Skokie (Lloyd Mandel Levayah Funerals) was unique to the funeral industry, but it made sense for families that were going to have funeral services at graveside, or from their Synagogue as it was much less expensive to maintain than a multi-million dollar funeral home.

Now, with the ability to show caskets on a computer screen, it is no longer necessary to have a large casket selection room, so the need for a large storefront has passed.  

On July 21st, 2010, Mitzvah Memorial Funerals  opened at a Regus office suite in Deerfield at 500 Lake Cook Road, suite 350.  We still can use this facility as well as the network of Regus offices throughout Chicago.

On December 1st, of 2019 we moved into a new facility in Northbrook.  This facility gives us more office space, which is needed due to the volume of cases we are now doing.  More importantly, we will soon have a preparation room at this facility where the deceased will be held and cared for until the time of the funeral and disposition.    We have designed this facility to allow chevra kadishas the ability to perform taharas at a facility were no embalming takes place and for shomers to have their own dedicated room. 

Photos of this space will be uploaded in the near future.

We can also make funeral arrangements at your home and also now do this very effectively over the phone and with the use of the internet to show caskets and to email contracts and authorizations.

Skokie Office

8850 Skokie Blvd #101
Skokie, IL 60077

Our Skokie office was opened in August 2011 directly across from Chicago Jewish Funerals new $8,000,000+ funeral home that opened the same month. We openly tell our families that our office rent including utilities, maintenance and real estate taxes is slightly over $900 a month in contrast to what we estimate to be well over $75,000 a month in debt service, utilities, maintenance and real estate taxes across the street.

By using Mitzvah Memorial funerals, families that choose graveside services Synagogue service, or services from other indoor facilities can do so without having to pay for the high overhead of a funeral home!  

Several Synagogues are now available to non-affiliated families at very reasonable rental fees (typically $500). Many of these Synagogues offer both chapels and sanctuaries that typically seat approximately 100 people and over 500 people respectively. Parking at these Synagogues is typically much better than at funeral homes where many attending the funeral are often forced to park blocks away on the street.

Our $2845 charge for our normal services at graveside is over $1700 less than the charge Chicago Jewish Funerals across the street charges families. Our caskets and also significantly less. As an example, our Dan, aka the Kidron Casket is $1450 versus $2195 across the street and ours is finished (theirs is not). Our Haggai casket at $1850 is over $2700 across the street and ours is full sized and has a nice finish (theirs is small and has a rough finish). 

We are the only Jewish funeral business in Chicago that shows all of our caskets with their prices.  Our caskets are typically 25%-40% less than our competitors charge for the same, or similar caskets.   Families that want to use the funeral home across the street, or any other Chicago Jewish funeral home should consider purchasing the casket from us. We will deliver it free of charge and the funeral home must accept this without any additional fee.
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