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Jewish graves
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 27, 2019, 7:19 pm
French students smash Jewish headstones; police say it wasn’t anti-Semitic
Three men said to have been drunk while committing vandalism in Bordeaux
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
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
November 1, 2018, 7:24 pm
Jewish cemetery vandalized in Moldovan capital
Meanwhile Jewish headstones uncovered in Ukraine under wooden floorboards of a military barracks
By
JTA
June 28, 2018, 6:19 pm
Volunteers rescue Jewish headstones used to pave street in western Ukraine
Road work in Lviv reveals up to 100 early-20th-century gravestones desecrated during Nazi and Soviet periods
By
Ruth Ellen Gruber
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