A spokesman for the Jewish community in Russia's second-largest city said Tuesday that about 40 grave stones were recently damaged in St. Petersburg's
By JPOSTLEO GIOSUÈCOM
A spokesman for the Jewish community in Russia's second-largest city said Tuesday that about 40 grave stones were recently damaged in St. Petersburg's Jewish cemetery and said vandals have attacked a Jewish restaurants twice this month.Mark Grubarg said the latest attack on the restaurant, called Shalom, occurred Monday when assailants threw stones through its windows. Russia and the Soviet Union have a long history of anti-Semitism and fears of its resurgence have risen in recent months.Grubarg, however, noted that no anti-Semitic signs were left either in the cemetery vandalism or the restaurant attacks, so simple hooliganism could not be ruled out.