Ohio

US Supreme Court agrees to hear case of Ohio Jew forbidden from holding home minyan

"If local governments can shut them down with a cease-and-desist order before anyone can challenge them in court, every single one of those gatherings is at risk," the Alliance Defending Freedom said

An illustrative photograph of a man wearing tefillin
OLD WEST End Festival 2010.

Several wounded in Ohio shooting near festival, police seeking suspect

The interior of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple in Beachwood, Ohio, designed by the architect Percival Goodman. The building has been sold and the property is slated to become senior housing.

Cleveland-area Jews are about to lose an iconic mid-century synagogue building - opinion

Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Casey Putsch during an interview on NBC4 Columbus, May 1, 2026.

Casey Putsch, candidate who asked Grok to praise Hitler, loses in Ohio GOP primary


Violet Spevack, weekly chronicler of Cleveland Jewry for 50 years, dies at 107

Although she came from what she called “the Wild West,” she was passionate about Cleveland.

Park Synagogue in Cleveland designed by Eric Mendelsohn.

Ohio school board member apologizes for giving Nazi salute at public meeting

The local federation CEO said she did not believe Zakkour “had antisemitic intent.”

 Tipp City Board of Education member Anne Zakkour delivers a Nazi salute and utters "Sieg Heil" at board then-president Simon Patry during a public meeting, Sept. 5, 2023.

Neo-Nazis picket Jewish center outside Toledo after first protesting LGBTQ event

They had come directly from picketing Toledo Love Fest, an LGBTQ event. Federation officials said it appeared that their decision to head to the Jewish community immediately after was spontaneous.

 Neo-Nazis wave swastika flags outside of Georgia synagogue this past June

Man pleads guilty to raping Ohio child who sought abortion in Indiana

Gerson Fuentes, who was the live-in boyfriend of the child's mother, confessed to raping the child in a police interview.

 Abortion rights protesters participate in nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Atlanta, Georgia, US,  May 14, 2022

Toddler dies after mother left her alone for 10 days to go on vacation

A woman in the US was arrested for murder after leaving her toddler, just a year and a half old, alone at home for 10 days while taking a vacation.

 Jailyn Candelario was just under two years old when she was left home alone for 10 days by her mother, leading to her death.

Two-year-old shot, killed pregnant mother and fetus in Ohio

The mother received an emergency C-section at the hospital that she had been transported to but her unborn son did not survive. Shortly after, the mother also perished.

 Police vehicles are seen parked outside Richneck Elementary School, where according to the police, a six-year-old boy shot and wounded a teacher, in Newport News, Virginia, U.S., January 6, 2023,

5-year-old boy swallowed 40 pieces of gum, rushed to the hospital

The doctors were able to remove the ball of gum that was blocking his intestines in a non-surgical procedure.

 Child chewing gum.

Scientists advance in search for new COVID strain's patient zero

Patient Zero is likely experiencing symptoms that could be confused with IBD or chronic diarrhea.

 SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind COVID-19 (Illustrative).

White supremacists sentenced for plan to attack US electric substations

The two men had joined an online neo-Nazi community before planning the attack.

An electrical substation.

Two men sentenced for planning to attack US electric substations

Their plan was to attack substations with powerful rifles, which they believed would result in millions of dollars in damages while causing civil unrest, but they never carried out any attacks.

 The FBI seal is seen at its headquarters before a news conference by Director Christopher Wray on the US Justice Department inspector general's report about the FBI's actions in the 2016 US election in Washington.