The vandalism comes less than a week after a Jewish cemetery near St Louis, Missouri, was vandalised.
And on Friday, religious slurs and swastikas were spray-painted in several neighbourhoods of Buffalo, New York.
On Monday morning, at least six Jewish Community Centers on the US East Coast - including in the Philadelphia suburbs - received telephone bomb threats, leading to building evacuations.
A man visiting his father's grave at Philadelphia's Mount Carmel Cemetery on Sunday called police after finding that approximately 100 headstones had been knocked over.
"I'm hoping it was maybe just some drunk kids," Aaron Mallin told WPVI-TV.
He added that it was "very disheartening" to find the damaged graves, and that he hopes that the vandalism was not motivated by anti-Semitism.
"But the fact that there's so many, it leads one to think it could have been targeted," Mr Mallin said about cemetery, which dates back to the mid-1800s. Many of the headstones had been toppled over, and some had cracked in half.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that three adjacent Christian cemeteries were left undamaged.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney denounced the attackers, saying, "my heart breaks for the families who found their loved ones' headstones toppled... Hate is not permissible in Philadelphia."
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon posted a statement on Twitter saying, "#Philadelphia Jewish cemetery desecration is shocking and a source of worry. Full confidence #US authorities catch and punish culprits."
So far over $11,000 has been raised online to be donated to the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, in order to repair the desecrated graves.
A reward of $10,000 is also being offered by the Anti-Defamation League for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. The local chapter of Fraternal Order of the Police, a law enforcement labour union, is offering another $3,000.
culled from BBC
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