Andy Cohen invokes Jewish roots in condemning attack on St. Louis Jewish cemetery
Published February 21, 2017
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Andy Cohen at the 15th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation benefit at Cipriani Wall Street in New York, Nov. 2, 2016. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Andy Cohen, the host of Bravo’s late-night talk show “Watch What Happens Live” and the mastermind behind the channel’s uber-popular “Real Housewives” franchise, addressed the recent vandalism of a St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery on his show Monday night.
In doing so, he mentioned that some of his great-grandparents and other relatives are buried there. Over 170 gravestones were toppled in the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery in University City, Missouri.
“I don’t have to have a personal connection though to know that this is not who we are as Americans,” Cohen says in the powerful clip below.
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