LA mayor criticizes ‘abhorrent’ violence after anti-Israel protesters block synagogue
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (Democrat) called the violent clashes, which took place on social media late Sunday night between anti-Israel activists and Israel supporters, “abhorrent.” The violence began just before noon on Sunday. Adastra Synagogue in the 9000 block of Pico Boulevard. “The violence that occurred today in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood is abhorrent and […]
Newsom, Bass Silent as Antisemitic Mob Targets Synagogue in L.A.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) remained silent Sunday about the shooting that occurred when an anti-Semitic mob targeted the Adas Torah synagogue in the Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson. Breitbart News reported that dozens of pro-Palestinian activists blocked the entrance to a synagogue to prevent members of the Jewish community from […]
Pro-Palestinian Mob Targets Another Synagogue in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists targeted an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in the heart of the Pico Robertson neighborhood on Sunday, blocking entry to an event promoting Israeli real estate investment. Masked protesters blocking entry to a synagogue in Los Angeles’ Jewish neighborhood has nothing to do with free speech and everything to […]
Pro-Israel Protesters Flock to Defend L.A. Synagogue Targeted by Pro-Palestinian Mob
Large groups of pro-Israel counterprotesters demonstrated outside a synagogue and a Jewish school that were targeted by a mob of pro-Palestinian activists in Los Angeles on Thursday. The clashes began early Thursday when pro-Palestinian activists showed up at a school in Valley Village, a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. It’s happening […]
NYC vandal scrawls ‘Palestine’ on wall of Park Avenue Synagogue
Anti-Israel vandals have targeted another Jewish landmark in New York City, this time carving “Palestine” into one of Manhattan’s largest synagogues. According to the New York Police Department, the graffiti was discovered around noon Friday on the exterior wall of the Park Avenue Synagogue. The photo shows the word “Palestine” graffitied underneath the Bible verse, […]
Police Kill Knifeman Burning Down French Synagogue
The French government will award a medal Friday morning to the police officer who shot and killed an Algerian immigrant who had been ordered to leave the country and had been setting fire to a synagogue several years earlier. A 29-year-old Algerian immigrant was shot dead by police early this morning, armed with a 10-inch […]
French police kill armed man suspected of setting fire to synagogue
An armed man believed to have set a synagogue on fire was shot dead by police in northwestern France on Friday. Police officers in Rouen responded early Friday morning to an alarm about smoke coming from a synagogue in the city, according to the Associated Press. Upon arriving at the building, they came into contact […]
Polish teenager suspected of attacking synagogue with Molotov cocktails arrested
Polish police have arrested a 16-year-old man on suspicion of attacking a synagogue with a petrol bomb, and said they will ask prosecutors to open an investigation on Thursday. The Nozik Synagogue was attacked around 1 a.m. Wednesday, with some damage to its facade. No one was in the chapel at the time, and no […]
13 young Hasidic Jewish men charged for Brooklyn synagogue tunnel fracas
All 13 young members of the Hasidic Jewish community have reportedly pleaded not guilty to charges related to the defacement of a wall at a famous Brooklyn synagogue that led to a mayhem that was caught on camera during Wednesday’s arraignment. A tunnel discovered under a synagogue in January. The discovery of the tunnel caused […]
60 historic Torah scrolls that survived Nazis celebrated at NYC synagogue
Sixty historic Torah statues took part in a procession at an Upper East Side synagogue on Sunday to celebrate the recovery of more than 1,500 religious artifacts from Nazi-occupied Prague. Representatives from Jewish temples in the tri-state area gathered at the Temple Emanu El Stryker Center in Manhattan for a Jewish prayer that praised the […]