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Illustrative photo of smashed tombstones in a Jewish cemetery. (AP/Hans Punz)
June 23, 2019, 9:22 am
Jewish cemeteries desecrated in South Africa
Vandals damage four graves in Strand, near Cape Town; community blames vagrants, not anti-Semitism
By Stuart Winer
The Jewish cemetary of the Mount of Olives overlooks Jerusalem’s Old City. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
June 7, 2019, 9:21 pm
Why some American Jews pay more than $20,000 to be buried in Israel
For some, the practice is rooted in the Bible and prophecies of the Messiah, for others it is Zionist sentiments; whatever the case, it is often a complex affair
By Josefin Dolsten
Entrance to Hebrew Cemetery on McMahon Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. (Google Screenshot)
March 19, 2019, 4:52 pm
Jewish gravestones vandalized with swastikas in Massachusetts
Cemetery in Fall River also defaced with anti-Semitic slogans including ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘Oy vey, this is MAGA Country’
By JTA
The marble plaque showing damage from recent vandalism on the front of the tomb of German revolutionary philosopher Karl Marx, a Grade I-listed monument, is seen in Highgate Cemetery in north London on February 5, 2019. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)
February 5, 2019, 9:04 pm
Tomb of Karl Marx vandalized in London
‘It’s not irreparable but it will never be the same again,’ says chief executive of the cemetery trust
By AFP
The late-16th century Buchach Jewish cemetery in western Ukraine has some 2,000 gravestones. (Courtesy/ESJF).
December 11, 2018, 9:17 am
German government pays to fence Ukrainian Jewish cemetery
Late-16th-century graveyard located in Buchach, western Ukraine; famous progeny include Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon and Austrian Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal
By Toby Axelrod
Vandalism discovered at a Christian cemetery outside Beit Jamal Monastery on October 17, 2018. (Tag Meir)
October 18, 2018, 3:21 pm
Christian cemetery outside Jerusalem vandalized in apparent hate crime
Police probing smashing of 30 headstones at Beit Jamal Monastery’s graveyard, which has been targeted several times in recent years
By Jacob Magid
The Ohabei Shalom Cemetery with its burial chapel in East Boston, Massachusetts, on June 10, 2018 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
June 20, 2018, 10:55 pm
Immigrant center planned in the grounds of Boston’s oldest Jewish cemetery
Inside a converted burial chapel, the city’s newest and most vulnerable residents will access citizenship resources alongside content on East Boston’s Jewish past
By Matt Lebovic
A tombstone vandalized with a swastika at Sunset Hill Cemetery in Glen Carbon, Illinois, on May 27, 2018. (Screen capture: CBS News)
May 30, 2018, 3:32 am
Illinois man charged with painting swastikas on cemetery headstones
Some 200 graves were defaced with Nazi symbol ahead of Memorial Day; 1,300 veterans are buried at the nondenominational cemetery
By AFP
Milton Cemetery, Milton, Massachusetts. (screencapture/ instantstreetview)
December 3, 2017, 11:39 pm
Massachusetts teen arrested for stealing Holocaust memorial sculpture
Now 19, suspect wanted to gift statue to a friend. Police: Nothing suggests crime motivated by hate, bias or anti-Semitism
By JTA
Members of the Jewish community inspect toppled headstone at Washington Cemetery in the New York borough of Brooklyn on March 5, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ)
March 6, 2017, 6:58 pm
Jewish politicians dispute NYPD finding cemetery damage not vandalism
Local officials cast doubt on police assessment that neglect was to blame for 42 toppled headstones at Brooklyn graveyard
By JTA
Members of the Jewish community inspect toppled headstone at Washington Cemetery in the New York burough of Brooklyn on March 5, 2017. (AFP/EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ)
March 5, 2017, 9:29 pm
Brooklyn cemetery damage not vandalism, police say
Neglect and other factors blamed for 42 toppled headstones at predominantly Jewish cemetery in New York
By AP and TOI staff
Eddie Redmayne and J. K. Rowling attend the European premiere of 'Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them' at Odeon Leicester Square on November 15, 2016 in London, England. (Karwai Tang/WireImage)
From the WebFebruary 22, 2017, 2:34 pm
JK Rowling’s tweet for Muslim campaign to repair Jewish graves triples donations
Crowdfunding drive for desecrated burial site boosted overnight after Harry Potter author promotes Jewish News article
Illustrative: A man walks through a cemetery in Jerusalem in this undated file photo. (Nati Shohat /Flash90)
January 13, 2017, 3:41 pm
Israel’s burial societies refusing to bury gay people – TV report
In at least four instances, religious authorities suggest the dead be taken somewhere else or interred on outskirts of cemetery
By TOI staff
Three of the most famous Jews buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were activist Erna Rosenberg (left), Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter (center), and author Bernard Malamud. (Wikimedia Common)
February 11, 2016, 2:58 am
The mysterious Jews of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Why have hundreds of notable Jews chosen to be interred in these Cambridge, Massachusetts, non-denominational burial grounds?
By Matt Lebovic
October 22, 2015, 6:40 pm
Neo-Nazi group says it vandalized Athens Jewish cemetery
‘F*** Jews’ and swastikas sprayed at graveyard on outskirts of Greek capital
By JTA
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