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Egypt cleans and removes slums near 1,200-year-old Jewish cemetery
JNS
February 22, 2019
Bassatine Cemetery is the only remaining Jewish one left 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.
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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.”
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France: Jewish cemetery desecrated near Strasbourg
Yossi Lempkowicz
European Jewish Press
December 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.
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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.
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The worldwide work of saving cemeteries and honoring the Jewish dead
Howard Blas
June 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.
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