The firm of E. Bernheim & Sons Memorial Chapel was started by Elias Bernheim as a storefront funeral business on Clay Street in Newark in 1880. With the advent of modern funeral parlors, the firm was relocated to Belmont Avenue in Newark, where a funeral home featuring a large chapel was opened in 1923.

Upon Elias Bernheim's death in 1925 the firm was operated by three of his sons, William, Charles and Emil.

In order to serve a much centralized Jewish population the firm's next move was to Chancellor Avenue in 1954 where it remained until the business was merged with the Goldsticker Memorial Home, also on Chancellor Avenue, in 1970 and then moved to a more spacious location on Clinton Avenue in Irvington.

The E. Bernheim & Sons Memorial Chapel was under the management of Albert Bernheim as was the Irvington location and the Maplewood location.

Ironically, 1925 also saw the death of Philip Apter and that business, which was started on Morton and Prince Street in Newark in 1902 was carried on by his sons, Barney and Ellie.

Philip Apter & Sons served the Jewish Community from its Hallmark location of Stratford place near the intersection of Clinton Avenue from 1945 til 1960 when its Suburban location in Maplewood was opened.

Philip Apter & Sons was carried on by his two sons Barney and Elli and upon their deaths, the operation of the funeral home fell to Barney's nephew, Howard and Ellie's son Philip.

The Goldsticker Memorial Home was founded by William L. Goldsticker on High Street in Newark after the turn of the century and after Mr. Goldsticker's death in 1943 was operated by his son-in-law Leo Gold up until its merger with E. Bernheim and Sons in 1970.

The firm of Bernheim-Goldsticker was merged with the Suburban Chapel of Philip Apter & Son on Springfield Avenue in Maplewood in 1986 where it remained until the completion of its present facility which was opened on November 30, 2001.