Four days after a violent protest outside a Los Angeles synagogue sparked national furor, more perspectives are emerging about what happened. The demonstration sparked condemnation from national and state elected officials, including President Biden, Vice President Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom. “Intimidating Jewish congregants is dangerous, unconscionable, antisemitic and un-American,” Biden said in a statement. […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Opponents of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza staged a protest that evolved into brawling and one arrest outside a Los Angeles synagogue over the weekend in violence condemned by President Joe Biden and the city’s mayor, who called for more police patrols. Fighting between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and counterprotesters erupted Sunday outside […]
Fights broke out between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups outside a synagogue in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 23. The Pro-Palestinian activists were gathered outside the Adas Torah synagogue on West Pico Boulevard, where they were met with counterprotesters, according to the Los Angeles Times. This footage was captured by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel, who said that the […]
MOSCOW (AP) — Armed militants attacked two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a traffic police post in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, killing a priest and six police officers, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said Sunday. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement that a Russian Orthodox Church priest and police officers were […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris and the first Jewish person to serve as the spouse of a nationally elected U.S. leader, will deliver remarks on Sunday at the groundbreaking of the memorial to victims of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. The White House announced that Emhoff, who has […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver said Friday an “incendiary device” was thrown at the front doors of a synagogue in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a “disgusting act of antisemitism.” Vancouver police said the case was being investigated as an act of arson and possible hate crime. […]
An armed man believed to have set fire to a synagogue in northwestern France was shot and killed by police on Friday. Officers in Rouen responded to an alert early Friday morning stating that smoke was rising from a synagogue in the city, according to The Associated Press. When they arrived at the building, they […]
Police in the city of Rouen in northern France have shot dead a man who they said tried to set fire to the local synagogue. Writing on the social media platform X, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin congratulated the police officers on their courage and response. According to reports on broadcaster Franceinfo, the police were called […]
French police say a man shot and killed outside a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen threatened officers with a knife and a metal bar. Police were alerted that smoke was rising from the synagogue and came face to face with the man when they got there, national police said. An officer opened fire […]
Polish police have detained a 16-year-old boy suspected of having thrown a Molotov cocktail at the historic Nożyk Synagogue, a police spokesman told the Rzeczpospolita newspaper on Thursday. The motive behind the Wednesday attack on the only Warsaw synagogue to have survived the Nazi onslaught during World War II, remained unclear. The suspect refused to […]
Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs overnight by an unknown perpetrator, but there was minimal damage and nobody was hurt, Poland’s chief rabbi said on Wednesday. The incident was strongly condemned by political leaders. The attack on the Nozyk Synagogue happened at around 1am, the country’s American-born chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, told the Associated […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs in the night by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt, Poland’s chief rabbi said Wednesday. The incident was strongly condemned by political leaders. The attack on the Nożyk Synagogue happened around 1 a.m., the country’s American-born chief rabbi, Michael […]