Tag: Jewish cemetery

At least two major poskim have permitted outright the burial of gentiles and Jews together in a case when they were found killed together.

“I don’t want to inflame a debate. I want the investigation to take place calmly.”

At least 85 Geilenkirchen Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

"If such a thing had happened in Europe it would have opened all the news editions, but on Mount Olives it barely generates a yawn."

These days, the remaining Jewish community of Ioannina has shrunk to about 50, mostly elderly.

"The State of Israel cannot accept this barbarity, and must provide a broad response to this matter."

The drones are collecting topographic data that EJCI experts, who are based in Kiev, Ukraine, use to track down and design plans for the cemeteries.

Local authorities issued a statement condemning "in the strongest possible terms this awful anti-Semitic act and sends his complete support to the Jewish community which has been targeted again."

On September 8, 1939, German forces entered Lodz and immediately began targeting and terrorizing Jews, who constituted 34%, or 223,000 people, of the city’s prewar population of 665,000.

"Sometimes you have to hit a wall, feel the rift, in order to build a new bridge."

Remnants of Torah scrolls are buried in the Warsaw, Poland Jewish cemetery.

Forty of the 50 graves in the tiny 18th century Jewish cemetery were desecrated. The last time, the perpetrators were caught but not punished.

The debate over establishing a new Jewish cemetery in the city of Kazan, capital of the Republic of the semi-autonomous republic of Tatarstan in southwest Russia, is all but resolved.

So far, hundreds of tombstones have been desecrated in Jewish cemeteries in St. Louis, Philadelphia, Rochester, and now Brooklyn.

Cemetery manager: "I don't want to label it anti-Semitism. I don't think there's any proof of that."

Israeli officials called the desecration "shocking" but said, "We have full confidence in U.S. authorities to catch and punish the culprits."

If students on the tour encounter foreign journalists, European MPs, or anti-Israel propaganda tours led by radical Left NGOs, they will be permitted to educate them, politely, about the hypocrisy of the delegitimization campaign against Israel.

Before the war there were some 50 synagogues in Kolomia, among them the magnificent Hoiche Shul, a Yerushalmi synagogue, several Hassidic kloizes and even a Zionist synagogue.

The new plan is intended to improve the personal safety of those ascending the mount and to prevent vandalism and desecration of the graves.

France, Spain, Sweden, Russia and Slovenia were among the non-Arab nations who supported the resolution.

As reported earlier, Prime Minister Netanyahu's grandfather's grave on the Mount of Olives was desecrated overnight by Arab vandals who destroyed and burned numerous...

Major Sarel was killed last year in Gaza when Hadar Goldin's body was stolen by Hamas. The IDF released a video from Sarel's helmet cam.

Mirella Petteni Haggiag, a former Italian model from Rome, makes her way through the tombstones with a garbage bag in her hand several times of year when she visits Israel.

Swastikas and antisemitic slogans were painted on the headstones.

At least a dozen headstones were desecrated and upended at a Jewish cemetery in Santiago del Estero, an Argentine city of nearly 250,000 and...

A Los Angeles Jewish cemetery accused of dumping remains to make room for new interments has settled a 25,000-person class action lawsuit. Eden Memorial Park...

Polish photographer Lukasz Szczygielski has apologized for conducting a photo shoot with a half-naked model at the Jewish cemetery in the southern Polish town...

Gravestones and bones from an 18th century Turkish Jewish cemetery 20 feet underground were unearthed during construction on an underground tunnel in the city...

The city of Warsaw agreed to hand over ownership of an ancient cemetery to Poland’s Jewish community. The Brodno Cemetery, on the eastern banks of...