Authorities are investigating the desecration of a 300-year-old Jewish cemetery near London, reported the United Kingdom’s Jewish Chronicle.
Assailants reportedly used sledgehammers to shatter, upend and split headstones at the Chatham Memorial Synagogue cemetery. The damage was discovered hours before Yom Kippur started on Oct. 8, though it is believed that the vandalism took place on Sept. 30, the night of Rosh Hashanah.
“It’s the most important time of the year for self-reflection and saying sorry. To have something like this happen at that time is quite appalling,” said Dalia Halpern-Matthews, chair of trustees at the synagogue, according to the Daily Mail.
 (JNS)
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