New Jewish grave outrage

More than 100 headstones were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, less than a week after similar vandalism in suburban St. Louis.

A man visiting the cemetery called police at 9:40 a.m. Sunday to report that three of his relatives’ headstones had been knocked over and damaged.

Officers found that about 100 other headstones were also knocked over, apparently sometime after dark Saturday. A criminal mischief/institutional vandalism investigation was opened.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia lists Mount Carmel as a Jewish cemetery.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon called the report “shocking and a source of worry.”

Last Sunday, more than 150 headstones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery in University City, Mo.