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Citing Jewish roots, TV host blasts cemetery desecration

‘This is not who we are as Americans,’ Andy Cohen says

By Gabe Friedman 22 February 2017, 10:21 am
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Andy Cohen interviews a guest on a February 20, 2017, episode of 'Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen' (screen capture: YouTube)
Andy Cohen interviews a guest on a February 20, 2017, episode of 'Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen' (screen capture: YouTube)

JTA — Andy Cohen, the host of Bravo’s late-night talk show “Watch What Happens Live” and the mastermind behind the channel’s uber-popular “Real Housewives” franchise, addressed the recent vandalism of a St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery on his show Monday night.

In doing so, he mentioned that some of his great-grandparents and other relatives are buried there.

Over 170 gravestones were toppled in the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery in University City, Missouri.

“I don’t have to have a personal connection, though, to know that this is not who we are as Americans,” Cohen said in the clip.

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