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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 1 March 2017
Outpouring of community help for vandalized Jewish cemetery

geted. tombstone of a World War
“This is absolutely insane,” I veteran, which had been
said Michael Bristow, a obscured by years of dirt
52-year-old Catholic from and debris.
Philadelphia who went Another volunteer, Robert
to Mount Carmel to help. Weiss, 55, of Dover, Mas-
“These people are human sachusetts, took a day off
beings just like you, just like from work and drove more
me. than five hours to Philadel-
They’re not different. I phia to lend a hand.
thought this was all over “I just had to see this for my-
with. Why is this still go- self, and participate,” said
ing on? I mean, grow up, Weiss, adding he was “be-
world.” side himself” when he saw
Volunteer John Walsh from northeast Philadelphia rakes debris Some volunteers raked the damage.
at Mount Carmel Cemetery Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Philadel- leaves into bags, while oth- After each one-hour shift,
phia. Scores of volunteers are helping in an organized effort to ers carried clipboards and the volunteers walked to
clean up and restore the Jewish cemetery where vandals dam- began the process of map- a corner of the cemetery,
aged hundreds of headstones. ping the hundreds of tomb- where a rabbi offered a
(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma) stones in the crowded cem- meditation and led them in
etery, noting any damage song — a Jewish prayer for
MICHAEL RUBINKAM ported over the weekend, to each. One man whose peace.
Associated Press or the motive. The Anti-Def- son will be commissioned Sarah Samuels, a University
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Doz- amation League offered as an Air Force officer in of Pennsylvania student,
ens of volunteers from vari- a $10,000 reward for infor- May became choked up said she was gratified by
ous faiths helped clean up mation leading to an arrest as he uncovered the flat the response. q
a Jewish cemetery on Tues- and the Fraternal Order of
day after scores of tomb- Police $3,000.
stones were toppled by The desecration of more
vandals, as people from as than 100 graves in the
far as Boston came to Phil- crowded cemetery came
adelphia to rake leaves, as Jewish Community
help document the dam- Centers and day schools
age and pray for peace. around the nation deal
Police have not deter- with wave after wave of
mined who was behind the hoax bomb threats. A Jew-
vandalism at Mount Carm- ish cemetery in suburban
el Cemetery, which was re- St. Louis has also been tar-
Chicago cardinal takes stand

on immigration enforcement

DON BABWIN cannot come on the prem-
RACHEL ZOLL ises, ask them for their con-
Associated Press tact information and tell
CHICAGO (AP) — The Ro- them to contact the (arch-
man Catholic archdiocese diocese) Office of Legal
in Chicago told its schools Services.” Kevin Appleby
this week not to let federal of the Center for Migration
immigration agents into Studies, a Catholic policy
their buildings without a institute that advocates for
warrant, in step with guid- immigrants and refugees,
ance given to hundreds said he was unaware of
of Chicago public schools any other U.S. bishop send-
last week in response to ing such guidance in re-
President Donald Trump’s sponse to Trump’s sweep-
efforts to crack down on il- ing rewrite of immigration
legal immigration. enforcement policies.
Marking what may be “Cardinal Cupich is adher-
the first such guidance is- ing to the civil law but also
sued by a Roman Catholic sending a message to the
church leader, Cardinal Trump administration that
Blase Cupich sent the direc- his priests and archdiocese
tive in a letter Monday to will not be assisting (the De-
principals of more than 200 partment of Homeland Se-
schools and other officials curity) with their mass de-
in the nation’s third larg- portation program,” said
est archdiocese. He said Appleby, who for years
that if immigration agents led the immigration office
show up without a warrant, of the U.S. Conference of
to “tell them politely they Catholic Bishops.q