Ukrainian police arrested two men in connection with the recent vandalism of Jewish tombstones in the city of Shepetovka, according to Ukrainian media reports. One of the vandalized tombstones marks the grave of Rabbi Pinkhas of Korets, one of the successors of the founder of Chasidism, the Ba’al Shem Tov.
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