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NEWS
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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