Congregation Shaarie Torah Cemetery

{{Short description|Historic Jewish cemetery in Multnomah County, Oregon, US}}

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Congregation Shaarie Torah Cemetery is an historic Jewish cemetery in southeast Portland, Oregon's Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood, in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://digital.osl.state.or.us/islandora/object/osl%3A103779/datastream/OBJ/view|title=Historic Cemeteries in Oregon|date=2016-09-28|publisher=Oregon State Library Digital Collections|author=Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries|access-date=2019-05-26|archive-date=2019-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526050450/https://digital.osl.state.or.us/islandora/object/osl:103779/datastream/OBJ/view|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Documents/Cemetery_List.pdf |title=Historic Cemeteries in Oregon |publisher=Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries |page=53 |date=2021-02-09 |access-date=2021-03-17 |archive-date=2020-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129173458/https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Documents/Cemetery_List.pdf |url-status=live }}

History

In 2003, the cemetery was desecrated by a self-described white supremacist and one other person.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/oregon-man-pleads-guilty-to-desecrating-jewish-cemetery|title=Oregon Man Pleads Guilty to Desecrating Jewish Cemetery|website=FBI|access-date=2019-05-26|archive-date=2015-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924154659/https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/oregon-man-pleads-guilty-to-desecrating-jewish-cemetery/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2005/01/13/Ore-man-pleads-in-cemetery-desecration/86231105660937/|title=Ore. man pleads in cemetery desecration|date=2005-01-13|website=UPI|access-date=2019-05-26|archive-date=2019-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526050558/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2005/01/13/Ore-man-pleads-in-cemetery-desecration/86231105660937/|url-status=live}}

See also

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