cemeteries

Defaced gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Maryland

Gravestones vandalized at Jewish cemetery in Baltimore

More than a dozen headstones were discovered vandalized with swastikas over the July 4 weekend.

Marking the Ghosts in Poland’s Old Jewish Cemeteries

How do you alert people to an absence? Across Poland, different communities come together to clean up and restore Jewish cemeteries. But in some places, those cemeteries have been not just neglected, but replaced — with sites ranging from stadiums to parking lots to playgrounds. That’s where Katarzyna Kopecka, Piotr Pawlak, and Jan Janiak come in. They […]

Calif. Jewish cemetery accused of mishandling remains is sued a second time

Several dozen relatives of people buried at Eden Memorial Park Cemetery filed a complaint Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging mass disturbances of their loved ones’ graves.

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