A demand that the United States Attorney General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation launch an immediate probe of Jewish cemetery desecrations in New Jersey was voiced here at a meeting of the Rabbinical Council of the state, an Orthodox organization, at Long Branch.
Meanwhile, the state Jewish War Veterans called on the FBI to act in the cemetery desecrations because a government-installed headstone on the grave of a soldier had been destroyed in an assault on the Jewish cemetery in East Brunswick. At the same time, the JWV decided to ask the New Jersey Legislature for stronger laws against cemetery desecration, which is now classed merely as a misdemeanor.
The rabbis further urged a Federal investigation of the dynamiting of synagogues in various Southern cities. Asserting that it was “obvious that these infamous acts are following an organized pattern throughout the nation,” the council called it the “specific duty of the Federal Government to investigate, apprehend and punish those responsible.”
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