Symbolic use

The various "Jerusalem stones" are employed worldwide in Jewish buildings as a symbol of Jewish identity. It has been used this way in many Jewish Community Centers, including the one in San Jose, Costa Rica, in Hillel buildings such as the Columbia/Barnard Hillel building, in Jewish memorials including the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach, in many Jewish schools including the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland and in numerous synagogues, including the 1901 Ades Synagogue in Aleppo, Syria and the new Jewish Chapel at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland.

This use has become so common that one rabbi told the New York Times in 2007 that “Every synagogue in the world has Jerusalem stone in it.”

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