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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
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
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
Ultra-Orthodox men make their way to Rav Ashi's tomb, which straddles the Israel-Lebanon border. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90, undated)
December 19, 2024, 7:11 pm
Four Israelis detained after entering Lebanon, reportedly to visit rabbi’s tomb
Police note illegal crossings punishable with up to four years in jail; IDF troops in Lebanon find and destroy Hezbollah rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles
By Emanuel Fabian
The grave of Yisrael Yudkin who was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip, pictured in Jerusalem on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
July 3, 2024, 5:22 am
Religious phrases okayed on army headstones, including appeal for divine vengeance
Policy change announced by defense minister follows outrage over denial of request by slain Haredi soldier’s family to add ‘God will avenge his blood’ to his epitaph
By Canaan Lidor
Aviel Zaguri, left, and his brother Meir stand outside their yeshiva in Netivot, Israel, on October 15, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
October 17, 2023, 1:27 pm
In Netivot, poverty compounds the problems of a battered border city
Thousands of the frontline city’s residents are riding out incessant Hamas artillery, citing faith, defiance — and lack of better options
By Canaan Lidor
Graves prepared at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, October 8, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90
October 16, 2023, 4:35 pm
As Israel buries its dead, volunteers honor them by digging their graves
At the largest cemeteries, funerals have been held day and night, requiring teams of volunteers to prepare fresh graves
By Shira Silkoff
People gather for a protest at the Stella Maris Monastery in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, June 18, 2023. (Flash90)
July 27, 2023, 4:47 pm
At a Haifa church, Jewish pilgrims test coexistence strained by painful history
Haredi visitors outside Stella Maris say they want to pray near the presumed burial site of Prophet Elisha; churchgoers say it’s just another attempt to intimidate Christians
By Canaan Lidor
Worshipers leave the Stella Maris church in Haifa, Israel after a service on July 20, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)
July 27, 2023, 10:07 am
Jewish pilgrims clash with Christian worshipers outside iconic Haifa church
Stella Maris, a Catholic house of worship, is believed by some to be burial place of Prophet Elisha; has become flashpoint as Breslov Hasidic movement members try to pray outside
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: The grave of a daughter of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav after it was torched in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, in 2015. (Oholei Tzadikim via JTA)
August 11, 2021, 9:38 am
Ukraine grave of Rabbi Nachman’s daughter destroyed, desecrated with pig heads
Perpetrators shatter above-ground parts of gravesite; Jewish sites also vandalized this week in Moldova, Greece
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Jewish cemetery in Shumen, Bulgaria. (Screenshot: Google Street View)
January 21, 2020, 10:55 pm
Jewish cemetery vandalized in Bulgaria
Gravestones broken, fence damaged in city of Shumen, local report says
By Marcy Oster
The late-16th century Buchach Jewish cemetery in western Ukraine has some 2,000 gravestones. (Courtesy/ESJF).
January 11, 2020, 5:29 pm
EU gives $1.1 million toward preserving Jewish burial sites
European Commission extends funding to European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, which uses innovative tools to identify vulnerable sites
By JTA
A picture taken on January 7, 2020, shows a general view of the Jewish cemetery of Bayonne, southwestern France, where a dozen graves were desecrated a few days prior. (GAIZKA IROZ / AFP)
January 7, 2020, 6:48 pm
Jewish cemetery desecrated in southwest France
Head of local Jewish community discovers vandalism of a dozen graves while visiting the burial place of her grandparents
By AFP
Graves in a Jewish cemetery lie damaged from heavy rains in the Sodeco area of Beirut, Lebanon, December 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
December 26, 2019, 3:53 pm
Beirut floodwaters sweep away Jewish graves
At least 4 graves in only Jewish cemetery in Lebanese capital damaged; of thousands of Jews who once lived in Israel’s northern neighbor, only 29 remain today
By AFP
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
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