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'Sick massacre:' Three family members are butchered in Nazareth murder-suicide

A shooter in Nazareth targets family members before committing suicide, leaving three dead and others injured. Police view it as a family conflict, not criminal activity.

Har HaMenuchot cemetery, Jerusalem

Israel owes David Ben Avraham a Jewish burial

Despite his conversion not being recognized, this man persevered through so much grief in his life and deserves the chance to be buried next to people of his chosen faith.

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Rabbis call for convert killed by IDF to be buried in a Jewish cemetery

The 63-year-old victim, whom the soldiers suspected of being a security risk, was known as David Ben Avraham by Jews who knew him, but was born Saamach Zeitoun.

IDF names soldier killed in battle in southern Gaza

Kabeda served in the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion in the 7th Armored Brigade.

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Swastikas found on gravestones at Cleveland Jewish cemetery

The Cleveland Jewish Federation called the vandalism "absolutely sickening."

Jewish cemetery in Belarus destroyed by Nazis, now being made into a memorial

The Nazis also destroyed the city’s Jewish cemetery in part by selling half of its headstones.

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
28/09/2023

Israelis rebuild Moroccan Jewish cemetery after brutal earthquake

The Israeli Eyalim Association continued with its annual tradition in Morocco for the seventh year despite the earthquake that recently devastated the country.

A Talmudic scholar's posthumous journey to Jerusalem

The journey to bring a beloved relative home for burial from lonely Czestochowa.

By DAVID OLIVESTONE
09/09/2023

Lamentations at Rabin’s tomb link Tisha Be’av to modern tragedies

A young man was playing a somber tune on a piano as dozens of people waited for the chanting of lamentations to start.

Rediscovery of celebrated rabbis' tombs fuels restoration of Morocco's Jewish history

Many people have worked to restore most of the graves and are planning to start cleaning off the vegetation growth around the tombstones and clearing the walkways.

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