Synagogue

Teen slashed in Brooklyn synagogue by 'emotionally disturbed' fellow congregant, NYPD says

The 22-year-old suspect, Krybus Shimon, is a fellow congregant of Yeshiva Gevoah Toldos, an Orthodox synagogue in Borough Park, the New York Police Department said.

A New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle is seen outside the Israeli Consulate building in Manhattan, New York City, US, May 22, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the site of the Manchester synagogue attack, where multiple people were killed on Yom Kippur in what police have declared a terrorist incident, in north Manchester, Britain, October 3, 2025.

UK police step up security measures amid antisemitism concerns before Jewish holidays

Illustration image of handcuffs on the hands of an arrested man, in Jerusalem, May 21, 2025.

Police arrest suspect in connection to pair of Monticello synagogue break-ins

President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech after he and the Jewish people in Europe received the International Charlemagne Prize (Karlspreis) 2024, in Aachen, Germany, May 9, 2024.

Conference of European Rabbis launch seven-point manifesto to combat antisemitism in the EU


US lawmakers seek 100-foot buffer zone around houses of worship to protect against protests

Those efforts have now been joined by Slotkin, who is Jewish, and Cruz, who has often taken aim at antisemitism within the Republican coalition over the past year.

An anti-Israel protest in New York City. Ilustrative.

Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius’ Great Synagogue as Lithuanian Jews dispute its future

Vilnius was a major center of Jewish thought, famed for both its religious tradition and modern secular Jewish culture. It was home to the 18th-century Vilna Gaon, a highly influential sage.

Workers excavate the central floor and bimah of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 22, 2026. (Shira Li Bartov)

At sunrise in an ancient Golan synagogue, the debate over sovereignty feels absurd - opinion

Zionism, at its foundation, is the return of an indigenous people to the hills, springs, and sacred sites that shaped its civilization long before anyone called it a nation-state.

Sunrise at Dir Aziz, a fourth-century synagogue in the Golan Heights.

Associate of Manchester synagogue attacker jailed over terror reconnaissance

Mohammad Asim Bashir was sentenced to life in prison after conducting hostile reconnaissance at a UK military base with the Manchester synagogue attacker.

ARMED POLICE officers stand outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester following the attack there on Yom Kippur.

France arrests six suspects over alleged synagogue terror plot near Paris

France’s anti-terror prosecutor said the suspects were arrested after a suspicious vehicle was found near a Sarcelles synagogue, prompting an evacuation.

 Illustrative: A police officer waits outside the courtroom at the courthouse in Paris, March 31, 2025.

Parashat Va'ethanan: The positive within the negative

The Ten Commandments are not an independent list of fundamental principles, but rather the nucleus from which the entire Torah unfolds - its genetic code.

Moses on Sinai (Le tables de Loi judaique), 1773. Artist Simon Julien.

Sydney's synagogue leaders give evidence on antisemitism to Royal Commission following Bondi attack

Foster noted "warning signs that Holocaust survivors, and indeed the Jewish community, recognize because they have seen where such patterns can lead if they're left unchallenged."

PEOPLE ATTEND a vigil organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Chabad UK to honour victims of the Bondi attack in Sydney and mark the second night of Hanukkah, in London, Britain, December 15, 2025.

Australia synagogues forced to cancel services, divert funds to cover security costs

Counsel assisting Richard Lancaster told the commission that synagogues have canceled Friday night services because they "couldn’t afford to pay a guard."

Great Synagogue of Sydney

Inside America’s first prison synagogue: New exhibit tells the story of Jewish inmates who built it

While founded by Quakers and long Christian-oriented, Eastern State hosted Jewish prisoners as early as the 1800s. 

The restored ark of the synagogue at Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, whose history is explored in the new exhibit "Freedom Through Faith."

Beyond the Headlines: New synagogue in Kissufim, with the old Torah ark from Gush Katif - opinion

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The new synagogue in Kibbutz Kissufim.