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The grave of Yisrael Yudkin who was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip, pictured in Jerusalem on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
June 25, 2024, 3:10 am
Defense Ministry pressed to honor headstone preference for Haredi fallen soldier
Yisrael Yudkin’s parents want acronym for ‘May God avenge his blood’ added to epitaph at Jerusalem military cemetery; rabbis urge Gallant, IDF chief to grant family’s request
By Canaan Lidor
The Evangelical Reformed Church, Vilnius, Lithuania in April 2015. (Ardfern/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-3.0)
January 24, 2019, 3:40 pm
Lithuanian church removes Jewish headstones used as stairs
Local Jewish community celebrates victory after years-long battle to ‘ensure respect for the dead and Jewish legacy’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Some 20 headstones were overturned and smashed the Jewish cemetery of Svaliava, Ukraine. (Chabad.org)
October 18, 2017, 10:36 pm
Teens arrested in vandalism at Jewish cemetery in Romania
Jewish community demands ‘serious investigation’ after headstones destroyed in old graveyard in Reghin, swastikas drawn on gates
By JTA
Lisa Gelber
June 1, 2016, 1:03 pm
Lisa Gelber
The sacred safety pin
How can one wear the ’shiva shirt’ after the week is over? With longing and memory and an eye to the future
Plonsk, Poland, the hometown of David Ben-Gurion (YouTube screenshot)
March 4, 2016, 2:41 pm
Holocaust statue in Ben-Gurion’s hometown stolen, found
Separately, a Jewish cemetery is desecrated in northern Poland and a Holocaust monument is vandalized in western Hungary
By JTA and ToI Staff
Members of the Polish Strongman Federation, headed by former world champion Tomasz Kowal (left) remove a Jewish gravestone from an urban farm plot in Warsaw. (courtesy From the Depths)
November 11, 2014, 6:30 pm
Polish musclemen move monument
The Polish Strongman Federation volunteered to relocate 380-kilogram Jewish gravestone from urban agriculture plot in Warsaw
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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
Howard Schoenfeld and his daughter Zahava stumbled upon a mysterious gravestone while strolling on the Long Island beach, July 2014. (Courtesy Howard Schoenfeld/JTA)
August 28, 2014, 1:23 am
Family stumbles upon Jewish gravestone on beach jetty
Who was Hannah Schnur, and how did her headstone end up on a Long Island beach?
By Hillel Kuttler
The grave of IDF soldier Lee Matt, seen during the vigil ceremony at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, August 21, 2014. A sticker on his grave, which reads 'Let me die in peace,' was made by his family as a protest against army regulations on what gets written on the soldier's tombstone. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 25, 2014, 1:04 pm
Fallen soldier’s family protests tombstone regulations
Sister of Lee Matt, who was killed in Gaza, posts clip in bid to convince IDF to include siblings’ names along with those of parents
By ToI Staff
The former New York mayor visits his own gravestone in the documentary 'Koch.' (Courtesy Zeitgeist Films)
June 18, 2013, 6:11 pm
Wrong year etched on Ed Koch’s grave
Engraver promises to speedily fix New York mayor birthdate error
By JTA and Renee Ghert-Zand
April 19, 2013, 4:56 am
Russian vandals confess to smashing Jewish graves
Suspects claim actions were not driven by anti-Semitism, but merely by drunkenness
The former New York mayor visits his own gravestone in the documentary 'Koch.' (Courtesy Zeitgeist Films)
February 2, 2013, 12:40 am
Haunting words at Koch’s grave
The former New York mayor died the same day as Daniel Pearl, the murdered Jewish journalist he quoted on his tombstone
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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