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Shlomo Rechnitz had heard about the Jewish cemetery in East Los Angeles, about its hundreds of toppled headstones, cracked tombs and the graffiti scrawled over some of its monuments. In late May ...
Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, co-director of Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles -- which has led the effort to restore Mount Zion -- said he hopes $700,000 can be raised to properly repair the cemetery ...
Founded in 1916 to bury indigent Jews, the cemetery has been nearly abandoned. Vandals have toppled and tagged headstones, and used others for target practice. In a Los Angeles Times Column One ...
The headstone of Isabel Janken’s father, Henry Morhar, lies flat on the ground at Mount Zion Cemetery, knocked from its ledger. It’s an elegant headstone, weighing more than 1,000 pounds. A ...
EAST LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An abandoned Jewish cemetery ingrained in East Los Angeles history will get a major renovation, thanks to the generosity of a local entrepreneur. Mount Zion ...
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The Mt. Zion Black cemetery finally has a permanent memorial after the City of Tampa unveiled a plaque Wednesday at the site of the African American burial ground.
October 2, 2013 (ZION, Ill.) One family member calls these thefts "disgusting." Two people have been charged with stealing close to 600 bronze vases from the Mt. Olivet cemetery alone.
A local man's grief over the death of his mother has been compounded by a mix-up at a cemetery in Wheeling, West Virginia.
-- While Home of Peace Jewish cemetery has about 100 burials a year, Mount Zion hasn't seen one in about six years. · Jewish dead lie forgotten in East L.A. graves [LAT] Chorus ...
Stream Southern California's News Leader and Original Shows 24/7 LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles police on Thursday investigated a shooting near the Mount Sinai cemetery in the Hollywood Hills area.
For an hour and a half Thursday afternoon, two men knelt in the grass of Leesburg’s Mount Zion Cemetery and carefully cleansed the gravestones of four Civil War veterans from Loudoun County ...