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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
Illustrative photo of the Hamptons, Long Island, NY Shutterstock)
August 29, 2015, 3:10 am
Hamptons Jewish cemetery so trendy, even non-Jews dying to get in
'You don’t want to be left out in the cold — literally,' says Charlotte Klein Sasso, who recently bought two plots for $6,500 each
By Gabe Friedman
Illustrative photo of a cemetery in Malmo, Sweden (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
March 16, 2015, 4:27 pm
Swedish police guard Malmo Jewish cemetery
Jewish mourner who stayed at site overnight complains of intimidation by teenagers
By JTA
This Oct. 6, 2014, photo shows a new vertical part of the Yarkon cemetery outside of the city of Petah Tikva, Israel. (AP/Dan Balilty)
November 23, 2014, 4:01 pm
Empty graves shelter illegal Palestinians
7 West Bank residents hide out in 'towers for the dead' in Herzliya; police arrest suspects
By TOI staff
Muslim tombstone engraver Mohammad Abdul Yaseen, August 21, 2014 (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ INDRANIL MUKHERJEE)
November 11, 2014, 4:34 pm
Mumbai’s Muslim engraver at work in Jewish cemetery
74-year-old Mohammad Abdul Yaseen has for decades been inscribing tombstones on behalf of India's Bene Israel community
By AFP
Illustrative photo of smashed tombstones in a Jewish cemetery. (AP/Hans Punz)
November 2, 2014, 5:35 am
Belarus town built of hundreds of recycled Jewish gravestones
Residents of Brest find old tombstones lining the foundations of their infrastructure and homes
By JTA
This Oct. 6, 2014, photo shows a new vertical part of the Yarkon cemetery outside of the city of Petah Tikva, Israel. (AP/Dan Balilty)
October 17, 2014, 7:54 pm
Israel raises the dead with skyward cemetery
With real estate at a premium, country at forefront of global movement to bury in vertical structures in densely populated areas
By Aron Heller
Jewish cemetery in Checiny, Poland (photo credit: Nikodem Nijaki/Wikimedia Commons/File)
August 13, 2014, 10:33 am
Protection of Cemeteries Act becomes law
The US can now place economic and academic sanctions on countries that obstruct religious freedom
By JTA
Graves of Jewish victims of the Iași pogrom in Romania on July 1, 1941. (Wikimedia commons)
August 2, 2014, 4:00 am
Children suspected of vandalizing Jewish, Christian tombstones near Paris
Vandalism by kids of Turkish descent comes amid a wave of attacks against Jews during Israel's Gaza operation
By JTA
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