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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.

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.

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.

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.

Eyewitnesses told the LAPD that a driver attempted to mow down Jews as they were walking near a synagogue in Hancock Park on Friday evening. 

A trio of Chicago residents notified police of anti-semitic chalk markings discovered on their properties since Friday, according to reports. One resident from the city’s Uptown neighborhood told law enforcement that they witnessed a man on Friday afternoon defacing a pillar outside his home located in the 800 block

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers is confronting a deluge of hate for saying he would welcome President Donald Trump to his synagogue in the wake of the tragic mass shooting.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will both travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Tuesday after eleven Jewish Americans were killed at a synagogue.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a “one-stop portal” on Monday being created by the Justice Department to help report hate crimes.

Pittsburgh Mayor: Armed Security Wrong Answer to Attacks on Vulnerable Places of Worship

“This was an anti-Semitic act,” Trump said in response to reports of eleven deaths at the Tree of Life Synagogue. “You wouldn’t think this would be possible in this day and age, but we never seem to learn from the past.”

At least 11 people are dead and others are injured, including police officers, following a Saturday morning attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Democrat Scott Wallace cursed during a debate in a synagogue against incumbent Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) in Pennsylvania’s 1st congressional district Sunday, dropping the “f-bomb” from the stage, considered a sacred space.

For decades, little did the principal of a kindergarten in Lithuania’s capital realise that his office stood on top of a sacred part of Vilnius’ 17th century Jewish temple, once famous across Europe.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian from Gaza donated several thousand shekels for the construction of a synagogue in memory of terror victim Reuven Schmerling, who was stabbed to death by two Palestinians last October, prompting more funds from Palestinians to come in. 

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.

A second synagogue has been reported vandalized in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, with attackers damaging Torah scrolls, prayer books and ritual objects.

A 70-year-old London woman is in hospital after being attacked by a man shouting “Zud” – Polish for Jew – as she walked on a suburban street.

Police are hunting two men who put up Nazi propaganda next to Britain’s oldest synagogue, in the latest offence revealed during National Hate Crime Awareness Week.

Sweden’s main organization for Jews is appealing a police decision to grant the openly racist neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) permission to stage a march near a synagogue in Gothenburg on September 30th.

Barcelona’s main synagogue will be closed for a minimum of 24 hours following Thursday’s deadly terrorist attack in the city, in which at least thirteen people were murdered and upwards of 100 wounded.