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Topic: Jewish cemetery

May 15, 2013
4:56 am

Abdellah Boutadghart, right, of the Moroccan embassy in Senegal, and Rabbi Eliezer Di Martino of Lisbon at the main cemetery in Praia for the burial of a Cape Verde resident, May 2, 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Why is the Moroccan king funding Jewish sites?

Whether to curry favor with US Jews or out of genuine interest, Mohammed VI has defied the region’s norms and taken wide-ranging steps to preserve community’s history

By Cnaan Liphshiz

May 1, 2013
3:32 pm

Jewish graves unearthed in Turkish construction work

Remains delivered to the Izmir Jewish community for reburial; gravestones not moved

April 28, 2013
11:16 pm

Vandals attack Jewish cemetery near Warsaw

Local police investigating smashed tombstones in Blonie’s 19th-century graveyard

April 18, 2013
8:43 pm

Neglected graves in an abandoned Warsaw Jewish graveyard. (Illustrative photo credit: AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s undead gravestones

From the web As part of its Warsaw Uprising anniversary coverage, Tablet explores photographer Łukasz Baksik’s hunt for repurposed burial markers

April 15, 2013
4:26 pm

Milan mayor condemns Jewish cemetery defacement

Vandals over the weekend tore away Stars of David decorating some 13 tombstones

April 10, 2013
3:05 am

The Jewish Cemetary in Prague. It was in use from the early 15th century until 1787. (photo credit: Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)

Europe’s communities overwhelmed by cemetery upkeep

Graveyards of annihilated communities are disintegrating as the remaining Jews use their limited resources on the living

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 15, 2013
9:44 am

Thessaloniki Jews to mark anniversary of deportations

Greek prime minister expected to participate in Holocaust commemorations

March 4, 2013
10:26 am

Warsaw to hand over ancient Jewish cemetery

Partly destroyed by the Nazis, graveyard will undergo major restoration this year

February 28, 2013
8:02 pm

Illustrative photo of desecrated graves in the main Jewish cemetery of Strasbourg, France in 2010 (photo credit: AP/Christian Lutz)

New Zealand Jews invite grave vandal to Shabbat dinner

Judge praises ‘extraordinary’ willingness of community to help pay for education of teenager who painted swastikas in cemetery

December 24, 2012
4:22 pm

Congregation Kahal Kadosh Shaare Shalom is Jamaica's only remaining synagogue. (Courtesy of Congregation Kahal Kadosh Shaare Shalom via JTA)

Jamaican Jews see intermarriage, conversion as their future

Assimilation and emigration present the greatest challenges to one of the western hemisphere’s oldest communities

By Debra Rubin

December 21, 2012
5:22 pm

Michael Lozman initiated the creation of a memorial in Grozovo, Belarus, to Jews massacred during the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Michael Lozman)

New York orthodontist restores Jewish history, one grave at a time

Michael Lozman’s cemetery-rehabilitation project educates college students and helps to reclaim Eastern Europe’s Jewish past

By Matt Lebovic

November 26, 2012
2:22 am

Graves at the Beth Haim cemetery on the outskirts of Willemstad, Curacao, are backdropped by the Isla oil refinery (photo credit: AP/Karen Attiah)

Eroding cemetery guards history of Caribbean Jewry

One of the oldest Jewish burial grounds in the Western Hemisphere, Beth Haim in Curacao is fading in the sun

By Karen Attiah

November 21, 2012
8:50 am

Teens arrested after prayer books burned in French Jewish cemetery

Graffiti targeting Jews and pro-Palestinian activist appears in Paris and near Lyon

November 14, 2012
7:02 pm

Three teens arrested in vandalism of Conn. Jewish cemetery

JTA — Three teenagers were arrested for vandalizing a Jewish cemetery in Connecticut The boys, aged 14 and 15, were arrested over the weekend, according to reports. More than 60 gravestones were overturned in the Congregation Ados Beth Israel Cemetery in Hartford between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19. The teens live near the cemetery and [...]

November 13, 2012
6:35 pm

Suspect in Jewish cemetery vandalism pleads guilty

Teenager desecrated 20 gravestones with pro-Hitler and anti-Israel graffiti

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