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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Police investigating Olivette home vandalism as possible hate crime

Police investigating Olivette home vandalism as possible hate crime

By Eric Berger, Associate EditorPublished August 29, 2019

A Jewish family’s home in Olivette was vandalized sometime during the night of Aug. 23-24 in what the local police are treating as a hate crime.The perpetrator, who has not been arrested, left a severed pig head at the home and spray-painted the porch,...

St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch (left) held a press conference on April 25, following the arrest of a suspect in the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery vandalism. 

Florissant man confesses to cemetery vandalism

By Eric Berger, Staff WriterPublished May 2, 2018

Despite more than a year passing since the vandalism at Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery, University City police had not conceded that the perpetrator or perpetrators would elude them, according to Captain Fredrick Lemons.There was a reason for that optimism....

A row of toppled headstones at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery on Monday evening. Photo: Eric Berger

Vicious Vandals

Jewish Light EditorialPublished February 22, 2017

Never in recent memory has there been such community wide and even international revulsion over an incident like the savage desecration of the historic Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery. Even though it was not immediately clear whether the attack was anti-Semitism...

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