At Jewish Cemetery, Seeking Answers Amid Heartbreak – The New York Times

UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — Families waited in silent clusters in a century-old Jewish cemetery here on Tuesday.

Some clutched slips of paper describing where relatives were buried. Others carried small plastic bags full of rocks to leave beside graves, a tradition.

They came with a single question: Was the grave of a loved one among the nearly 200 that had been vandalized here sometime over the weekend?

“You hope it’s not a resurgence of something, of anti-Semitism, but I don’t know,” Herschel Price, 87,

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