The desecration of a Jewish cemetery in New Brunswick over the weekend is now being investigated as a bias incident by police and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
After nearly 500 headstones were found toppled and cracked on Sunday, New Brunswick Police spokesman Sgt. Richard Rowe said that police are now considering the vandalism at the Poile Zedek Cemetery a bias incident. Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said he reported the demolition of the 499 headstones to the state Attorney General’s Office. He added that more patrols and additional security measures have been placed at the cemetery on Joyce Kilmer Avenue, which is used by Congregation Etz Ahaim in Highland Park and Congregation Poile Zedek in New Brunswick.
(Source: NJ.com)
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DUH!
I hope that the horrible people who commited this crimer will understand the severity of what they have done,never do such a terrible thing again,and pay for all the damage that they did,monetarely and sentimentaly. Of course,if they dont(as is likely),I would feel very good(and much safer as well)seeing them behind bars.
May Hashem protect us all from such sinners.My deepest condolences to the familys’ of the graves desecrated.
is the jewish cemitary less protected than the nonjewish ones that this should not be considered a bias act
I just dont get the denial of more and more bias attacks that are getting swept under the carpet
I maintain the website for Poile Zedek at http://www.poilezedek.org … information will be available soon regarding how to help repairs the stones or send money. Right now, you can click on the ‘donate’ link on the website.
When this happened to us in Baltimore it wasn’t deemed a hate crime. Of course, recent years have shown us that Jews can be attacked by gangs of non-Jews down here and that won’t even be deemed worthy of a police report, let alone being called a “hate crime”. If you have doubt in a rising amount of anti-semitic activity just check out how the Jews are treated down here…