Jewish gravestones vandalized in Hartford

A Jewish congregation says dozens of monuments have been broken and overturned by vandals in a burial plot in Hartford.

The West-Hartford based Congregation Agudas Achim discovered the damage yesterday. They say it’s not the first time damage has happened at the Zion Hill Cemetery.

Damage has also happened din 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000. That has many congregation members questioning if the acts have been random.

Some of the damage was so severe that many of the older markers cannot be repaired because they have been broken so many times before. Hartford police are investigating.

Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe says it’s destruction for destruction’s sake, and violates a person’s memory. He says at the least, he wants people to understand that it’s obnoxious and painful.