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Armenia’s sole synagogue is said to have been targeted by an arson attack, prompting the officials in the former Soviet republic to launch an investigation, according to a report. 

Assailants threw two Molotov cocktails early Wednesday at a synagogue in the center of the German capital, police said.

The mass shooter who murdered 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue will be spared of an execution despite a jury’s verdict to impose the death penalty due to President Joe Biden’s moratorium on the death penalty.

A Tunisian naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians as he tried to reach a synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba.

The NRA reminded Americans of the importance of the right to protect oneself Thursday after FBI Newark put New Jersey synagogues on notice, warning there is a “credible…broad threat” against the houses of worship.

Malik Faisal Akram was reportedly referred to Britain’s anti-terrorism Prevent programme twice, with the latest referral coming in 2019.

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who was taken hostage with two other Jews at a Colleyville, Texas, synagogue by jihadist Malik Faisal Akram on Sunday, told the Jerusalem Post that Akram believed Jews control the world.

We were told the FBI saved three hostages in a Texas synagogue. That appears to be yet another FBI lie. 

Malik Faisal Akram, 44, who was shot and killed during his hostage attempt at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, was reportedly known by United Kingdom intelligence, according to reports.

The gunman who held worshipers hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, was “not specifically” targeting the Jewish community, the Special Agent in charge of FBI Dallas claimed shortly after the attack, prompting incredulity from critics in light of “Lady Al-Qaeda’s” vociferous antisemitic rhetoric.

Police in Manchester, England, announced the arrest on Sunday of two teenagers in connection to the hostage-taking incident in Colleyville, Texas. The arrest took place just hours after the confirmation of Malik Faisal Akram, a Lancashire resident, as the man

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claimed Saturday that an attack and hostage-taking by an armed Islamic terrorist at a synagogue near Dallas, Texas, was “not specifically related to the Jewish community,” prompting criticism online.

A California man who opened fire at a Poway synagogue in 2019, resulting in the death of one individual and others being wounded, has pleaded guilty to over 100 federal hate crime charges.

The last known Jew in Afghanistan, Zebulon Simentov, refuses to leave because he does not want to give his estranged wife a divorce.

The Bishop of Essen, Franz-Josef Overbeck, has denounced last week’s anti-Jewish protests near the Gelsenkirchen synagogue while expressing his solidarity with the Jewish community.

German police have arrested several people of “Arabic appearance” following attacks on synagogues in North Rhine-Westphalia, including incidents where suspects burned Israeli flags in front of temples.

A Bronx judge reportedly ordered an alleged synagogue vandal let go on supervised release Sunday, changing course regarding another jurist’s previous decision to hold him on $20,000 bail.

A suspect was arrested recently following several vandalism incidents at synagogues located in the Bronx area of New York City.

One of the venues that London police raided over the weekend for holding a “large party” is reportedly a synagogue that was holding religious meals.

The U.S. Supreme Court on announced it is granting injunction relief to houses of worship, which challenged New York Gov. Cuomo’s coronavirus rules.

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.

A Syrian asylum seeker believed to be behind the vandalism of a synagogue is being investigated as a member of a terrorist group. 

A Jewish security group, Magen Am, is training individuals in California to use firearms as part of a security team in synagogues or other houses of worship.

Rioters ostensibly participating in Black Lives Matter protests against the killing last week of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis tore through a heavily Jewish neighborhood of Los Angeles Saturday night, ransacking stores and vandalizing a synagogue.

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Egypt reopened a historic synagogue on Friday in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria after a yearslong government renovation.

HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky says Americans can carry guns to the synagogue on the Sabbath for self-defense.

Beverly Hills police are investigating the vandalism of a synagogue Saturday after an employee arrived at the place of worship to discover an open door, overturned furniture and damage to several relics.

Two people were killed outside a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle as firearms were discharged and, according to reports, a grenade detonated in the building’s cemetery Wednesday morning.

TEL AVIV – The Lithuanian Jewish community on Tuesday announced that it was shuttering its doors, and that of Vilnius’s only synagogue, in the face of antisemitic threats and incitement by right-wing nationalists. 

Earlier this year, BuzzFeed invited two antisemites who want to see Israel “demolished” to write on its platform.     

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein had asked the Border Patrol agent in the Chabad of Poway to pray armed and it was that agent that chased Saturday’s attacker out of the building.

A 19-year-old man suspected of carrying out the deadly shooting at a San Diego-area synagogue on Saturday appears to have published an antisemitic and anti-Trump manifesto online, according to several reports.

“I especially want to recognize a certain off-duty border patrol agent who bravely returned fire and helped disrupt the attack and saved so many lives,” Trump said as the crowd cheered.

The Supreme Court of Sweden has announced a new ruling that will see a Palestinian migrant who was found guilty of firebombing a Jewish synagogue in Gothenburg expelled from the country.

Holland, Ohio’s Damon Joseph said he was inspired by the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting to plan his own “mass casualty attack.”

Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue lit a menorah at the site of the most deadly hate crime against Jewish people in U.S. history.