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A view of the smashed headstones at the Chatham Memorial Synagogue cemetery near London, October 2019. Source: Twitter via Dalia Halpern.

Authorities are investigating desecration of 300-year-old Jewish cemetery near London

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Authorities are investigating the desecration of a 300-year-old Jewish cemetery near London, reported the United Kingdom’s Jewish Chronicle. Assailants reportedly used sledgehammers to shatter, upend and split headstones at the Chatham Memorial Synagogue cemetery. The damage was discovered...
View of Har HaZeitim, Mount of Olives. Credit: International Committee for Har HaZeitim.

Revitalizing the 3,000-year-old Har HaZeitim cemetery in Jerusalem

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Israel’s oldest cemetery, Har HaZeitim—better known as the Mount of Olives—is expected to be rejuvenated in the upcoming years. Overlooking the Temple Mount, the 3,000-year-old reservoir of Jewish history is the resting place for more...
As many as 80 gravestones were vandalized at a French Jewish cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, discovered on Feb. 19, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

Swastikas on 80 gravestones desecrate French Jewish cemetery at German border

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As many as 80 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in France were discovered vandalized on Tuesday morning, adding to the latest wave of anti-Semitic attacks in the country. The cemetery, located in the village of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, visit at the synagogue in Strasbourg, France, on June 30, 2017. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

France: Jewish cemetery desecrated near Strasbourg

Anti-Semitic vandalism was discovered on tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Herrlisheim, in northeastern France, near the city of Strasbourg where two people were killed on Wednesday in a Christmas market shooting attack by an...
Nightly view of the Har HaMenuchot Jewish cemetery in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Shaul. July 28, 2013. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.

Jerusalem chief rabbi orders Muslim who sold land to Jews be buried in Jewish...

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Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Rabbi Aryeh Stern authorized the burial of a Muslim inside Jerusalem’s Har HaMenuchot Jewish cemetery after Muslim religious authorities declared he could not be buried in a Muslim cemetery because...

Poland pledges $28 million for Warsaw Jewish cemetery restoration

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Poland’s government pledged $28 million to restoring the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, making the preservation project one of the largest of its kind in European history. Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Glinski told World Jewish Congress CEO...