Another Jewish Cemetery Vandalized In Philadelphia

As reported by CBS News, Police say scores of headstones have been vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in northeast Philadelphia. A police spokeswoman said preliminary estimates are that 75 to 100 graves were damaged at Mount Carmel Cemetery in the Wissinoming section of the city. Police said a vandalism report came in just after 9:30 a.m. Sunday. The incident comes less than two weeks after another Jewish cemetery, in the city’s Bridesburg neighborhood, was vandalized in a similar manner.

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