A number of tombstones were overturned in an historic Jewish cemetery in New York, police said Sunday, the latest in rising number of apparent anti-Semitic incidents across the United States. Officers were called to the Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn on Saturday evening to investigate the vandalized graves, and the department’s hate crimes division has been notified, … Read more
Vandals tumbled and defaced headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New York, local officials confirmed Friday, the third such cemetery in the United States to suffer damage in a surge in apparent anti-Semitic acts. Meredith Dragon, chief executive of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, said local police were not yet ready to determine … Read more
Vandals have broken and overturned more than 500 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, the latest in a spate of recent bomb threats and attacks against sites for Jews across the United States. Hundreds of headstones, some of them more than 100 years old, were cut in half, local media reported Sunday. A local … Read more