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(L-R) Richard Markus, Sidney Markus (C)and Sandy Rosenthal look at a vandalized gravestone at Stone Road or Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, New York on March 3, 2017. Vandals tumbled and defaced headstones at a Jewish cemetery in a Rochester, New York, local officials confirmed Friday, the third such cemetery in the United States to suffer damage in a surge in apparent anti-Semitic acts. Meredith Dragon, chief executive of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, said local police were not yet ready to determine whether the toppling of a dozen or more headstones in the Stone Road or Waad Hakolel Cemetery overnight March 1, 2017 was an act of petty vandalism or a targeted hate crime. But New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced an investigation into the rise in crimes and threats against Jewish organizations in the state. / AFP PHOTO / Gretchen STUMME (Photo credit should read GRETCHEN STUMME/AFP via Getty Images)