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‘Absolutely abhorrent’ vandalism of Montreal cemetery with swastikas

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The photo that Jeremy Levi, the mayor of Hampstead (Québec), shared on social media shows a Jewish tombstone of a Cohen, with an illustration of two hands configured in the priestly blessing. “Forever in...

‘Finding Your Roots’ show divulges new info on family of Michael Douglas

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Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. shined a light revealing some of the mysteries behind the families of two Hollywood celebrities. A new episode of “Finding Your Roots” debuted on PBS on April 2, showing findings demonstrating the Jewish roots...
IDF soldiers stumbled onto a well-kept graveyard of World War I soldiers. Credit: IDF Brigade 188.

IDF soldiers stumble upon World War I graveyard in Gaza

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Israeli soldiers made an unexpected historical detour while fighting in the Gaza Strip when they ran across a well-kept World War I British military cemetery. Adding to the surprise was that some of the graves...
A street in the old medina of Tétouan in northern Morocco. Photo by Swiss aviator and photographer Walter Mittelholzer (1928) via Wikimedia Commons.

Rediscovering the graves of three ‘esteemed’ Moroccan rabbis after 60 years

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The tombs of three celebrated 17th- and 18th-century rabbis—Jacob Ben Malca, Hasday Almosnino and Jacob Marrache—have been rediscovered after more than 60 years at a cemetery in Tétouan in northern Morocco. Renewed knowledge of the...
Powązki Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Oct. 25, 2012. Credit: Jolanta Dyr via Wikimedia Commons.

Warsaw’s Jewish community buries remains found of unidentified Holocaust victim

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Warsaw’s Jewish community buried the remains of an unidentified Holocaust victim on Tuesday, found in a building that was once part of the Warsaw Ghetto. “We are here as the family for a person we...
Mainz Cathedral aerial panoramic view, located at the market square of Mainz city in Germany. Credit: saiko3p/Shutterstock.

Dozen-plus medieval Jewish headstones discovered inside wall in Germany

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Construction works recently uncovered 18 Jewish gravestones from the Middle Ages that were built into a wall in the old town of Mainz, Germany. According to Germany’s Ministry of Culture, the gravestones were used in...
Headstones tagged with graffiti reading "TRUMP" at a Jewish cemetery in Grand Rapids, Mich. The vandalism was found on Nov. 2, 2020. Courtesy: ADL Michigan.

Political graffiti turns up on headstones in Michigan Jewish cemetery

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A 100-year-old Jewish cemetery in Michigan was vandalized with the words “TRUMP” and “MAGA.” The cemetery in Grand Rapids belongs to Congregation Ahavas Israel, a 125-year-old Conservative congregation. The graffiti was found on Monday and...
A memorial stone at the site of an old Jewish synagogue in the French city of Strasbourg was vandalized, following the Feb. 19, 2019 discovery of swastikas on 80 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, also near the border with Germany, March 2019. Credit: EJP.

France to open hate-crimes bureau after Jewish cemetery desecrated

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French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced on Wednesday that following the mass desecration of graves at a Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg, the country has decided to open a national bureau to counter hate crimes. A...
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish tombstones used as cobblestones to be returned to Old Jewish Cemetery

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Pieces of Jewish gravestones used for street-paving in Prague’s pedestrian areas will be returned to the Old Jewish Cemetery in the Czech Republic’s capital as a result of an agreement reached on Monday between...
The Jewish cemetery in the Polish town of Zalewo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Polish students clean local Jewish cemetery, learn to read Hebrew gravestones

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Students from a school in the Polish town of Zalewo cleaned up a local Jewish cemetery and learned to read the Hebrew inscriptions on the gravestones. Local activists, who take care of the cemetery, invited...