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In a rare vandalism, 30-35 gravestones
are pushed over at Machpelah and
Nusach H'Ari in Ferndale.

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Vandals pushed over monuments

at the two cemeteries.

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Alan Hitsky
Associate Editor

olice and cemetery offi-
cials speculate that
drunken vandals hopped
the fence at Nusach H'Ari
Cemetery around midnight
Sunday, Oct. 16, pushed over six
monuments, including a large,
family marker, then did the
same to 25-30 gravestones at the
adjacent Machpelah Cemetery.
None of the monuments were
broken in the incident.
The two cemeteries are locat-
ed on the west side of Woodward
Avenue, south of Marshall (8 1/2
Mile) in Ferndale.
Last week, Machpelah workers
righted most of the stones them-
selves. Paul Saville, Machpelah
supervisor who lives on the
cemetery grounds, said a monu-
ment company would be used to
lift 8-10 of the larger stones at a

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Nusach H'Ari's admin-
istrator, Rabbi Moshe
Zaklikofsky, said it might
cost as much as $600 to
lift the monuments at
Nusach H'Ari. "I don't
know how they'll even get
in to lift the large one he
said. "There's very little
room."
Saville, who has worked
at Machpelah for 25 years,
and Rabbi Zaklikofsky,
who has been with
Nusach H'Ari for 29 years,
say the incident is
extremely rare. The rabbi
remembers a similar van-
dalism 25 years ago.
Saville said the only intru-
sion at Machpelah in his
memory occurred last
December. Five University
of Detroit Mercy students
were arrested after they
entered the cemetery from
a small park on St. Louis Avenue
west of the cemetery and cut
down two small evergreens to
use as Christmas trees.
A neighbor on St. Louis told
police that his dog began bark-
ing furiously around midnight
Oct. 16. The previous week,
Machpelah workers found "quite
a few beer cans" on the cemetery
grounds next to the adjacent
park on St. Louis.
The park, at the southwest
corner of the cemetery, was the
entry point for the college stu-
dents last December. Saville said
the city of Ferndale planned to
clean the park and trim back
bushes and trees after the latest
incident.
Ironically, the park was given
to the city in the 1970s by the
cemetery owners after the ceme-
tery received a strip of land from
highway improvements along
Woodward. The park is named
after the Oppenheim family,
which owns Machpelah.

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October 2 7 • 2005