According to the local police, the suspect stole equipment from a construction company that was performing maintenance work in the cemetery and on his way out he knocked over the tombstones.
Even if someone did not merit to live in the holy land, they can still be brought for burial here.
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Police request public's aid in locating perpetrators after vandals topple, break, headstones at Omaha cemetery.
Polish students clean Jewish cemetery, learn to read the headstones' Hebrew inscriptions.
European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative President Rabbi Isaac Schapira condemns the desecration of a British military cemetery in Haifa.
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Strasbourg mayor, chief rabbi join 1,000 people at rally against anti-Semitism at vandalized Jewish cemetery.
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Anonymous donor spends hundreds of thousands to restore 19th century Jewish cemetery in town of Żywiec, Poland.
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Haredim flock to Polish schoolyard where they say a cemetery used to stand.
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Jewish cemetery officials in Seattle say city has failed to protect it from abuse by homeless squatters.
Teen who spray-painted 'Heil Hitler' and swastikas on wall of Jewish cemetery sentenced to six months in jail.
J'lem municipality inspectors remove marble slab at entrance to terrorist cemetery in eastern J'lem. PA media claims tombstones smashed.
Belarus foreign ministry says controversial construction on former Jewish cemetery was approved by local Jewish community.
Vandals desecrate rabbi's grave, shatter gravestones, in Ukrainian city; local rabbi calls on authorities to catch culprits.
International volunteers learn about Judaism as they clean an historic Jewish cemetery.
Vandals overturn headstones at Brooklyn's Washington Cemetery.
A Jewish cemetery in New York State’s Orange County was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti.
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Pakistan's only self-declared Jew is fighting an uphill battle to maintain Jewish cemetery from encroaching Muslim graveyard.
Grodzisk cemetery destroyed in Holocaust used as junkyard and storage site; now building plans threaten its very existence.
Three Arabs arrested for destroying Jewish graves on Mount of Olives, as police finally show signs of treating the epidemic.
A Jewish cemetery was desecrated last week following statements earlier in the month of rising anti-Semitism in Norway.
Israel's Chevra Kadisha organizing the first conference of its kind, which will deal with all aspects of Jewish burial in Israel and abroad.
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