Stars of David ripped from Jewish tombstones in Milan

Published on April 15, 2013

More than a dozen tombstones at the Jewish section of Milan's main cemetery were vandalized.

April 12, 2013

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 12, 2013

Ukrainian city agrees to stop using Jewish headstones as pavement

Published on March 1, 2013

The city of Lviv in Ukraine agreed to remove Jewish headstones currently used as pavement.

Alleged vandals charged in New Zealand Jewish cemetery attack

Published on October 23, 2012

Three men were charged in a New Zealand court with damaging more than 20 Jewish gravestones at a historic cemetery in Auckland.

Candlesticks on Stone

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on August 28, 2012

Journeying to a Jewish Cemetery in Ukrainian Transcarpathia

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on August 26, 2012

U.S. Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal Visits Family Heritage Sites in Poland

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on July 25, 2012

Jewish Visitor Center in Brno

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on April 28, 2012

Jewish Cemetery Rescued in Slovakia

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on April 22, 2012

Jewish cemetery in Poland is vandalized

Published on March 19, 2012

Polish police are investigating the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in northeastern Poland.

The Holy Society -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

By Rabbi Hyim Shafner
Published on March 9, 2012

Jewish cemetery in Turkey vandalized

Published on April 27, 2011

Vandals smashed several headstones in a Jewish cemetery in Istanbul. The damage to the eight headstones and the periphery of the cemetery was discovered on Tuesday, the last day of Passover, in the Jewish cemetery in Beyoglu, Istanbul.

Jewish cemetery in France vandalized

Published on November 1, 2010

Graves were desecrated in a small Jewish cemetery in northeastern France.

Barbados’ Nidhe Israel: Torah on a tropical isle

By Peter L. Rothholz
Published on May 17, 2007

Barbados is, of course, well known as a "sun, sand and sea" island in the Caribbean, but it has many more attractions than these. Jewish visitors, in particular, are drawn to downtown Bridgetown, the island's capital city, to visit the oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.