After security guards prevent shooter from entering synagogue during Yom Kippur services, he carries out rampage on street, killing two. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government voices outrage over the attack on Yom Kippur and urges tougher action against anti-Semitic violence.
The Tzohar rabbinical organization partners with Yachad Ohr Torah Stone to provide accessible and meaningful free-to-the-public Yom Kippur services in 350 locations. Ohr Torah Stone President Rabbi Kenneth Brander: “Yom Kippur belongs to everyone."
“Enough is enough,” said Brooklyn Councilman Chaim Deutsch. “If they have to bring in 200 cops to patrol our streets to show their visibility, that’s what has to be done.”
Among the many tombs destroyed by the Islamic State in the Iraqi city, perhaps the most famous was the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah, whose story is read aloud in its entirety on the Jewish High Holiday.
Members of local Jewish community say German chancellor's support for Iran nuclear deal, inadequate action on anti-Semitism plaguing country among reasons Angela Merkel not deserving of prestigious World Jewish Congress prize.
According to Deputy Inspector Mark Molinari at the New York Police Department, 311 hate crimes were reported through September, of which 52% were classified as anti-Semitic. During equivalent period in 2018, only 43% of hate crimes targeted Jews.
Randy Halprin, one of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners who committed armed robberies and killed a prison guard, gets a reprieve less than a week before his execution date as lawyers argue trial judge was biased against him and made anti-Semitic slurs.
For over 15 years, online encyclopedia included entry on death camp in Polish capital where over 212,000 Poles purportedly died, despite there being no historical evidence of there ever being Nazi gas chambers in the city. Yad Vashem: Hoax "part of a wider attempt in Poland to distort the history of the Holocaust."
On social media, critics call omission in email encouraging observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day "shocking" and "sickening," with some suggesting the inclusion of "non-Jewish Poles" was proof the union deliberately left Jews off the list.
“It is truly uplifting to see a group of young olim from every corner of the earth arrive at the Western Wall and experience it in such a powerful way,” Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog says.
