Damaged Torahs found in Iraq buried in N.Y.
Jewish Journal
December 17, 2013
Damaged Torah scrolls found by U.S. troops in Iraq’s intelligence headquarters were buried in a New York cemetery.
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Restoring Mount Zion Cemetery
Jewish Journal
May 8, 2013
The headstone of Isabel Janken’s father, Henry Morhar, lies flat on the ground at Mount Zion Cemetery, knocked from its ledger. It’s an elegant headstone, weighing more than 1,000 pounds. A few feet below, an engraved picture showing a handsome Morhar is inscribed in capital letters, “Gone But Not Forgotten.”
Stars of David ripped from Jewish tombstones in Milan
Jewish Journal
April 15, 2013
More than a dozen tombstones at the Jewish section of Milan\’s main cemetery were vandalized.
Oxford medieval cemetery marked
Jewish Journal
July 6, 2012
A Jewish heritage committee in Oxford marked a medieval Jewish cemetery in the university town.
Cemetery chief Herbert Klapper’s salary among highest in Jewish communal world
Jewish Journal
June 11, 2012
Herbert Klapper, the president of a New Jersey not-for-profit cemetery, has one of the top salaries in the Jewish communal world.
Jewish cemetery in Poland is vandalized
Jewish Journal
March 19, 2012
Polish police are investigating the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in northeastern Poland.
Budapest Jewish cemetery being probed for corruption
Jewish Journal
December 6, 2011
Police are investigating allegations of corruption relating to fees charged for interment and other funerary arrangements at Budapest’s main Jewish cemetery.
Kosovo Jewish cemetery desecrated
Jewish Journal
December 1, 2011
Kosovo authorities are investigating the desecration Tuesday of a local Jewish cemetery. Swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans were sprayed on tombstones of this old cemetery which was restored less than six months ago.
Atlantic City Jewish cemetery vandalized
Jewish Journal
June 1, 2011
Some 15 gravestones were toppled in a Jewish cemetery in Atlantic City, N.J. The attack on the Rodef Sholom Cemetery reportedly took place just before the Memorial Day holiday weekend, according to the Press of Atlantic City. Police believe that more than one vandal was involved because of the heaviness of the gravestones but have no suspects.
Holocaust victims reburied in Romanian Jewish cemetery
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
The remains of dozens of Jews killed by Romanian troops during the Holocaust and found in a mass grave were reburied in a Jewish cemetery. The unidentified remains of at least 40 Jewish victims were reburied on Monday in the Jewish cemetery of Iasi in northeastern Romania.
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