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Firebombs hurled at Hasidic luminary’s grave in Ukraine
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUnidentified individuals hurl firebombs at the gravesite of a Hasidic luminary in the central Ukrainian city of Shpola.
The incident in the city located 120 miles south of Kiev occurred Sunday evening, according to Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee.
Dolinsky writes on Facebook that the perpetrators intentionally tried to set on fire a structure built near the gravesite of Aryeh Leib, who died in 1811 and was an important disciple of Dov Ber of Mezeritch, an influential 18th-century Hasidic rabbi.
— JTA
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