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500 Gravestones Toppled at New Jersey Cemetery

by Yated Ne'eman Staff

New Jersey's largest Jewish community was incensed at the desecration of graves on a scale unprecedented in the US when 499 gravestones were overturned and severely damaged at the Poalei Tzedek Cemetery. Only days earlier a similar incident took place at the same cemetery. A community leader who visited the site told a local reporter the cemetery looked as if it had been bombed.

Four teenage suspects were arrested in New Jersey. The arrests brought some calm to the local Jewish community, where many thought such large-scale vandalism must have been an organized attack by local antisemites.

The local police commander working on the case claims it remains premature to conclude the incident constitutes a hate crime since swastikas and antisemitic graffiti were not spray- painted on the gravestones as is typical in vandalism attacks at Jewish cemeteries.

 

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