London — The head of Britain’s top domestic spy agency MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, painted a dark picture Tuesday of the changing national security threats facing the U.K. and the world. “We have entered a new era of national security, requiring a new response,” he said in his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in…
Two Iranian men have been charged with plotting a terror attack on the Jewish community in Manchester, British police said Friday. The arrests come nearly a year after a deadly knife and gun attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in northern Manchester, where worshipers had gathered for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in…
One of the officers who helped prevent a shooting at an Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur continued fighting off the gunman despite being shot multiple times, officials revealed Thursday. Police also confirmed the shooter was targeting the Jewish community in a “hate-motivated” attack. Constable Jeff Smith was shot several times, suffering wounds to his head and…
The holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, got off to a violent start just after sundown on Sunday night in Canada, when a gunman opened fire on a police officer outside a synagogue in Ontario. It’s the latest in a string of synagogue attacks there this year. Ian Lee reports. Source link
A police officer and a man were wounded in an exchange of gunfire Sunday near a synagogue in Ontario as members of the Jewish community marked Yom Kippur, authorities said. The man was hospitalized in life-threatening condition. The province’s Special Investigations Unit said the exchange of gunfire happened near the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in…
A Michigan synagogue is reopening in time for the Jewish High Holidays, six month after it was targeted in a terror attack. The congregation at the Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan, one of the largest synagogues in the country, returned to its sanctuary last week for the first time since March to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the…
Michigan synagogue reopens 6 months after terrorist attack – CBS News Watch CBS News Six months after a terrorist rammed a truck full of explosives into a Michigan synagogue, images were released of the building restored and reopened. Jonah Kaplan has more. Source link
Washington — A coalition of Michigan Jewish leaders launched a petition campaign on Tuesday calling on Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and other candidates to make baseline commitments regarding Jewish safety and their views toward Israel, or risk losing their support. “It is about Dr. El-Sayed, and it’s also about a bigger issue going on…
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, apologized to the state’s Jewish Democratic Caucus on Saturday for comments he made after an attack on a synagogue in March, which he tied to Israel’s actions in the Middle East. “My comments may have been misconstrued to justify something I did not mean to…
Last year was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks outside of Israel in more than 30 years, according to a new report, with 20 people being killed in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism said its study “once again sounds the alarm about the deadly reality of…
