A man who set fire to a Melbourne synagogue while worshippers were inside was motivated by mental illness rather than antisemitism, an Australian magistrate said on Monday.
Police were reportedly warned years before the Manchester synagogue terror attack by neighbours of Jihad al-Shamie about the future Islamist extremist becoming “radicalised”.
In defiance of pleas from politicians, police, and Jewish leaders to refrain from protesting in the wake of the Islamist terror attack on a synagogue, thousands of pro-Palestine activists took to the streets of England on Sunday.
The Manchester synagogue terrorist, Jihad al-Shamie, was out on bail for a suspected rape at the time of the attack, which claimed the lives of two Jewish people on Yom Kippur.
A man was charged Sunday over an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue in an apparent escalation of antisemitic violence in Australia’s second-most populous city.
An arsonist set fire to the door of a Melbourne synagogue and forced the congregation to flee on Friday, seven months after criminals destroyed a synagogue in the same Australian city with an accelerant-fueled blaze that left a worshipper injured.
Czech authorities have detained five teenagers and charged two over an attempt to set fire to a synagogue, officials said Wednesday.
Arsonists extensively damaged a Melbourne synagogue on Friday in what Australia’s prime minister condemned as an antisemitic attack on Australian values.
The French government ordered police reinforcements to protect Jewish places of worship after a suspected arson attack on a synagogue.
An incendiary device was thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany on Friday but caused only minor damage, police said.
French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
Assailants threw two Molotov cocktails early Wednesday at a synagogue in the center of the German capital, police said.
A Lebanese-Canadian academic who is the lone suspect in a 1980 bombing outside a Paris synagogue will go on trial Monday.
Police in the Austrian capital of Vienna launched a manhunt Monday evening after a group of “professional” and “heavily armed” gunmen struck across the city.
Synagogue shooting suspect Stephan Balliet, 27, had previously been a member of the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, according to his father.
The Poway rabbi injured in a terror attack days ago told President Donald Trump at Thursday’s National Day of Prayer service that the president was the first person to begin his healing.
A man opened fire inside a San Diego synagogue Saturday and a good guy with chased him out of the building and opened fire on this fleeing vehicle.
James Polite, the 26-year-old man who was arrested Friday for vandalizing a synagogue in Brooklyn Thursday, is a Democratic activist who once worked for New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and also volunteered for Barack Obama.
Despite getting the green light from the Swedish migration board to deport him, a Palestinian migrant who firebombed a synagogue is being allowed to remain in Sweden because he may face danger in Palestine due to his anti-Semitic beliefs.
Three migrants from Palestine and Syria have been convicted for attempted arson after attacking a synagogue in Sweden, following the announcement the U.S. embassy in Israel would move to Jerusalem.
The firebombing of a synagogue by three Muslim men was not anti-Semitism, but a legitimate act of criticism against Israel, a German regional court has ruled.
TEL AVIV – Three Israeli-Arabs were stopped outside of a Jerusalem synagogue Sunday morning on suspicion of planning a knife attack. The suspects were caught with large knives outside the synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe. At the time the synagogue
PARIS (AP) — French investigators are trying to identify a chemical applied to an electronic keypad at a Paris-area synagogue that burned more than a dozen congregants. The Creteil prosecutor’s office said Friday that analysis is still taking place on
A menorah was stolen and vandalized from a synagogue in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday, the night before the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. The menorah was pilfered from the local Chabad Lubavitch Jewish synagogue and then resurfaced damaged and
A Palestinian terrorist carried out a stabbing attack outside a synagogue in south Tel Aviv on Thursday, killing one and wounding at least three others.
