Tag: Jewish Cemetery
Revitalizing the 3,000-year-old Har HaZeitim cemetery in Jerusalem
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...
Swastikas on 80 gravestones desecrate French Jewish cemetery at German border
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...
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...
Jerusalem chief rabbi orders Muslim who sold land to Jews be buried in Jewish...
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
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...