After a Philadelphia Jewish cemetery was vandalized, with more than 100 gravestones knocked over, local unions are volunteering to fix the damage and try to prevent it from happening again:
Bobby Henon, a Philadelphia City Council member with union ties who represents the Wissinoming neighborhood, tweeted Monday evening that the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council offered to replace the toppled headstones and that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local 98 offered to install additional lighting and security cameras.
Labor leader John Dougherty of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council told reporters that the vandalism is a “cowardly act of anti-Semitism that cannot be tolerated.” His workers also offered to re-sod and clean the cemetery grounds.
The unions join many other efforts to repair the damage, from a fundraising campaign to a volunteer clean-up to the National Museum of American Jewish History documenting histories of the people buried there.