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Workers restore Jewish gravestones in Damascus, 2026. (Syrian Mosaic Foundation)
June 26, 2026, 4:49 pm
Work started to restore historic Jewish cemetery in Damascus, heritage group says
Syrian Mosaic Foundation posts clip of graves being cleaned, repainted; resting place of Rabbi Nissim Nadavo, local rabbi who was with Eli Cohen before execution, said renovated
By ToI Staff
A view from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, with the Old City and Temple Mount in the background, November 17, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
February 12, 2026, 6:01 am
Israel’s generous burial policy will become unsustainable as population ages, study warns
With annual death toll expected to double by mid-2040s, report from Taub Center calls for rethinking approach to burials, including adopting higher-density practices to prevent ‘cities of the dead’
By Zev Stub
A general view of Barcelona, Spain, on July 7, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 26, 2026, 1:04 am
Over 20 Jewish graves desecrated in Barcelona cemetery
Community spokesperson links attack to map published by anti-Israel activists marking Jewish, Israeli sites; denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Men gather for Friday evening prayers at Bukhara's oldest synagogue, one of just two still functioning, in the old city of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, October 17, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 12, 2025, 3:50 pm
In an ancient oasis in Bukhara, a tiny Jewish community relies on its Muslim neighbors
Once an influential Jewish hub on Central Asia’s Silk Road, urban center in Uzbekistan is now home to just several hundred Jews, unthreatened by antisemitism, struggling to keep tradition alive
By Sue Surkes
Amy Koplow, executive director of the Hebrew Free Burial Association, and Efrem Reis, assistant director, look through a list of donor names at the association’s Maiden Lane headquarters in New York City, June 2025. (Cathryn J. Prince)
October 31, 2025, 1:29 pm
The haunting history of the Jewish burial society that cares for NYC’s lost and forgotten
Since 1888, the Hebrew Free Burial Association has ensured that in the city that never sleeps, the poor and huddled masses enter their eternal rest with compassion and dignity
By Cathryn J. Prince
Alina Plahti, who was killed at the Supernova music festival on October 7, 2023, was buried separately from other Jews at a cemetery in her home city of Beit She’an. (Courtesy)
July 10, 2025, 9:58 pm
Knesset rejects bill to let all terror victims be buried in Jewish cemeteries
Civil society groups say vote shows Israel has failed to learn lessons from October 7, when some victims who were not considered Jewish by law were buried in separate cemeteries
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: The Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens, New York, has graves going back to the early 1900s. (Cathryn J. Prince)
April 12, 2025, 1:23 am
Sages, celebrities, veterans, crooks: Take a NY cemetery’s Jewish walks of fame – and infamy
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens was founded in 1903 and holds over 231,000 graves. Its Legacy Foundation offers audio tours teaching visitors about the contributions of those interred
By Cathryn J. Prince
Polish archaeology students at work excavating a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, September 2024. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
March 1, 2025, 4:09 pm
Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access their roots – until now
By Shira Li Bartov
This photograph, taken on September 20, 2024 shows a Star of David on a Jewish tombstone at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia. (Damir Sencar / AFP)
October 12, 2024, 6:48 pm
Croatia moves to protect 52 Jewish cemeteries after decades of neglect, destruction
Law stipulated that graves could be reassigned if fee not paid, meaning remains of over 3,000 Jews were exhumed because families decimated by Holocaust had nobody left to pay
By Lajla Veselica
Illustrative: Vandalized headstones at the ancient Jewish cemetery of Námestovo, Slovakia, in December 2019. (Courtesy of ZCN via JTA)
November 24, 2023, 4:25 am
Authorities launch probe after at least 85 Jewish graves damaged in Belgian cemetery
Gravedigger in city of Charleroi discovers damage to Jewish section of cemetery; mayor: ‘Place chosen, theft of many Stars of David leave little doubt of antisemitic intentions’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Members of The Together Plan catalog gravestones from the Jewish cemetery in Brest, Belarus. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
October 3, 2023, 3:32 am
A new memorial rises up from the rubble of a Belarus cemetery destroyed by the Nazis
Once a vibrant center of Torah study, Brest saw its 20,000 Jews eradicated in the Holocaust. Now, its shattered gravestones get a new purpose after gathering dust for decades
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Children enjoy a bubble party in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, for Children's Day, June 1, 2023. (Screenshot from YouTube/Kan via JTA)
June 7, 2023, 12:25 am
Polish city throws bubble party on playground over Jewish graves
Chief rabbi of Poland sends letter of complaint to mayor Kazimierz Dolny, says city has refused to engage on protecting remains still buried beneath razed cemetery
By Dinah Spritzer
The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a complex that was shut down a decade ago, is the site of a proposed conference center. (Flickr Commons via JTA)
June 6, 2023, 7:22 pm
Lithuanian city vows to preserve ancient Jewish cemetery it had sought to dig up
Reversal in Vilnius follows highly publicized 10-year battle; activists issue two reports with cultural preservation strategies to avoid similar problems in the future
By Canaan Lidor
In past years, as many as 300 people at a time have visited the Istanbul cemetery. (David I. Klein/JTA)
January 29, 2023, 12:13 pm
Orthodox pilgrimage to Kabbalist rabbi’s Istanbul grave picks up after COVID slump
Though nowhere near as packed – or rowdy – as a similar one in Ukraine, an off-the-beaten-path tomb is increasingly visited by supplicants who bring an air of quiet camaraderie
By David I. Klein
Members of the Jewish community of Prague, the Czech Republic, attend the unveiling of a monument made of Jewish headstones at a local Jewish cemetery, September 7, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Prague via JTA)
September 14, 2022, 8:37 am
Prague cobblestones made from Jewish headstones returned to community
‘Return of the Stones’ monument part of larger effort to address desecration of Jewish cemeteries throughout Eastern Europe after the Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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