Jewish Cemetery

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Egypt cleans and removes slums near 1,200-year-old Jewish cemetery
JNSFebruary 22, 2019
Bassatine Cemetery is the only remaining Jewish one left in Cairo.
Egypt has started eliminating slums near the eastern part of Bassatine Cemetery in Cairo, the second-oldest Jewish cemetery on earth. Credit: Jewish community in Cairo.
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Egypt cleans and removes slums near 1,200-year-old Jewish cemetery
February 22, 2019
Bassatine Cemetery is the only remaining Jewish one left in Cairo.
Egypt has started eliminating slums near the eastern part of Bassatine Cemetery in Cairo, the second-oldest Jewish cemetery on earth. Credit: Jewish community in Cairo.
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Swastikas on 80 gravestones desecrate French Jewish cemetery at German border
February 19, 2019
“It just doesn’t stop, it’s shock after shock,” Maurice Dahan, the regional head of the Israelite Central Consistory of France, said after the cemetery attack. “I don’t know how long we are going to carry on. ... It makes me feel sick.”
Thousands of people joined rallies in Paris and across the country to oppose a rising wave of anti-Semitism throughout France, Feb. 19, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.
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France: Jewish cemetery desecrated near Strasbourg
Yossi LempkowiczEuropean Jewish PressDecember 12, 2018
Several tombs were tagged with swastikas, and inscriptions were written on the walls of the cemetery, among them “Crif = Zog” or “88,” a formula used by the neo-Nazi groups to designate Hitler.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, visit at the synagogue in Strasbourg, France, on June 30, 2017. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.
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Jerusalem chief rabbi orders Muslim who sold land to Jews be buried in Jewish cemetery
November 21, 2018
Jerusalem’s mufti, Erima Sa’id Sabri, issued a “fatwa” in July that ordered all Muslims to utterly reject land-sellers, refusing to marry, bury, do business with or attend the funeral of such people.
Nightly view of the Har HaMenuchot Jewish cemetery in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Shaul. July 28, 2013. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.
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The worldwide work of saving cemeteries and honoring the Jewish dead
Howard BlasJune 18, 2018
The ESJF was founded in 2015 to protect Jewish burial sites in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in places where Jewish communities were wiped out during the Holocaust. So far, it has placed fences around 102 Jewish cemeteries in six European countries and conducted mass field surveys of sites.
The Jewish cemetery in Kremenets, Ukraine, one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the country that was restored and preserved by the ESJF. Credit: Coutesy of ESJF.
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