Russian Orthodoxy condemns vandalism
by MOSCOW (JTA) -- The Russian Orthodox Church has condemned a recent act of vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in Smolensk, a city of, The statement by the church came after the Russian Jewish Congress urged the Russian Patriarch to condemn the cemetery desecrati
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At the end of April, on the Russian Orthodox Easter, vandals destroyed 52 headstones at the Jewish cemetery.
The desecrated headstones were turned over and broken. Dozens of metal nameplates were ripped off the stones, some of which were daubed with swastikas.
Viktor Vaksman, the head of the Smolensk Jewish community, said at the time that anti-Semitic incidents have become "a sort of Easter tradition" in Smolensk.
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