Nearly 180 gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries in Cincinnati have been vandalized, according to the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati and the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati.

Many of the gravestones – some dating back to the late 1800s – have been knocked face-down, with some cracked in half, at the Tifereth Israel and the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol cemeteries in the Covedale Cemetery complex.

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    And once again we see that there is no global situation that bigots can’t twist to their advantage.

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      At a guess… these people felt that their hatred of Jews in general outweighed their hatred for Jews who were also pedophiles.

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        I believe they were making a crass joke about the photo in which Miriam Epstein’s grave marker is standing.

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          Yes I was.
          You have to laugh to keep from crying.

          Dark humor is a lot like food; Not everyone gets it.

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      They might have been… but that meant a pretty different thing back when the people’s whose graves they desecrated died in the fucking 19th century.