HAMPTON, Va. — At the Jewish Cemetery of the Virginia Peninsula, the past, present and future are all intertwined. "We have to honor our responsibility to make a proper place for the burial of ...

A group of local archaeologists has begun excavating the grounds of the centuries-old Jewish cemetery in Uman, Ukraine, infuriating the local leadership of the Breslov hasidic sect. The hasidic ...

Marek Edelman's grave, Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, photo ... Quite recently even, the ground gave back an old Browning gun that might have served a purpose in the fights of 1944. These trees and these ...

The Jewish cemetery in Brest used to have tens of thousands ... Their basement was built from old Jewish gravestones. For nearly two decades, the Jewish community — and in recent years, the ...

Peeling back the tangle of vines reveals a sign: "The oldest Jewish cemetery west of the Allegheny Mountains." The name Chestnut Street Cemetery, or even Old Jewish Cemetery, is nowhere to be found.

the very old church actually in the Barbican (where Oliver Cromwell was married) who, by word of mouth, drew together a group of Jewish residents to find out if there really was a cemetery and its ...

Vases, family artifacts and heirlooms — some centuries old — were broken ... In Judaism, the cemetery is where specific ceremonial customs embody the Jewish tradition of mourning and ...