Vandals targeted the central Jewish cemetery in Moscow on Wednesday, Moscow’s chief rabbi, Pinchas Goldschmidt, reported to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The vandals overturned some 30 headstones. The incident is the latest in a series of recent attacks against Jewish institutions in Moscow.
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