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Eden Cemetery trial begins
Jared Sichel
February 11, 2014
The trial in the 2009 lawsuit against Eden Memorial Park, a Jewish cemetery, began Tuesday with opening statements from both sides at the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse downtown
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.
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.
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.
Snow dumping topples headstones in Brooklyn cemetery
Jewish Journal
January 5, 2011
New York City snow removal trucks dumped tons of snow from the area\’s recent blizzard into the city\’s largest Jewish cemetery, toppling 21 headstones. An iron fence around Brooklyn\’s Washington Cemetery also was damaged when crews from the Sanitation Department dumped the snow into the cemetery over New Year\’s weekend, the New York Post reported Wednesday. The damage was discovered Sunday. Family members of some relatives buried in the cemetery have visited in recent days to check on the graves. Several cars parked next to the cemetery also were buried; some were damaged.
In saving Jewish remnants in Galicia, an effort to enlist Ukrainians
Jewish Journal
December 20, 2010
On a sloping green hill tucked between small farmsteads, the mottled graves of Jews buried here since the 1600s rise up like a forgotten forest.
We’d All Rather Be in Venice
Ellen Switkes
August 4, 2006
It\’s been two years this week since my mother, Betty Switkes, died, and we still haven\’t had the unveiling. Jewish custom dictates that you unveil the headstone a year after the person dies, but my father has not found the right stone or the right words to inscribe on that stone, so she rests in this unmarked grave. People who pass by this spot might suspect the person buried here is a forgotten soul, but nothing could be further from the truth. She is the focus of his obsession.
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