Leaders of Slovakia’s Jewish Community are calling for nationwide cooperation to crack down on attacks on Jewish cemeteries. Their campaign comes as five rare tombstones were destroyed and six damaged at the Jewish cemetery in the town of Zvolen in western Slovakia, just two years after the site underwent a $10,000 renovation.
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