WHIPPANY, N.J. (New Jersey Jewish News via JTA) — A homemade explosive device found affixed to a headstone in a Jewish cemetery in New Jersey “could have gone off,” according to local police.
And in the 1970s, as the site’s former board of trustees began to pass away, the cemetery became overrun with weeds and turned into a dumping ground. Preservation New Jersey had even listed the ...
“To encroach on a cemetery, I don’t think that’s proper.” Johnson, of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey, said due to the hallowed nature of the Aumack Family Burying Ground, this ...