Scores of headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia have been broken and overturned, reports said Feb. 26, in the latest apparent vandalism incident at a Jewish burial ground in the U.S.
Police who responded to a report of vandalism Feb. 26 at the Mount Carmel Cemetery found that 75 to 100 gravesites were damaged, including headstones snapped off at the base, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Days earlier, almost 200 headstones were damaged in a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis. (Reuters)
ミズーリ州セントルイスやペンシルベニア州フィラデルフィアなど、米国各地のユダヤ教徒の墓地で、墓石がひっくり返されたり壊されたりする事件が相次いでいる。
The Japan Times ST: March 10, 2017