The FBI has joined the investigation of vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia to determine whether a hate crime occurred. Philadelphia police estimate 75 to 100 headstones were toppled Saturday night at Mount Carmel Cemetery, though people who visited the cemetery say the number is much higher. Police have not offered a motive or made any arrests. “The Philadelphia FBI Field Office, the Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania have opened a civil rights investigation into vandalism at the Mount Carmel Cemetery,” the FBI office in Philadelphia said in an email. “The FBI will collect all available facts and evidence.” The vandalism occurred less than a week after a similar incident at a Jewish cemetery near St. Louis and as dozens of Jewish community centers across the United States have received bomb threats. ‘I feel suddenly unsafe’ People of the Jewish faith in the area said they were disturbed, especially when they saw the vandalism in person. Adrienne Berger of northeast Philadelphia came to check on her parents’ headstone and found it intact. Still, she told CNN affiliate WPVI, “I felt suddenly unsafe as a Jewish person.” Millard Braunstein of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, told Philly.com he discovered his mother’s tombstone had been knocked over. His elderly sister was not able to come with him. “Yesterday was my sister’s 97th birthday,” he said, “and this was her bir
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