Unknown perpetrators defaced Slovakia’s Rabbi Hatam Sofer mausoleum, causing about $3,000 in damage. Police spokeswoman Silvia Mihalikova announced last Friday that someone broke three glass boards on the monument that symbolize gravestones, though it’s not clear when the damage was done.
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