Synagogue

Jewish watchdog urges NYPD to increase officers in hot spots after synagogue attack

In the incident on Friday night, Montes yelled during the service, disrupting it, and then struck a 63-year-old congregant and headbutted a member of security personnel who was escorting him out.

AUGUST 17, 2026|ByJOSEPH STRAUSS/JTA

Canadian man charged after targeted vandalism of Saskatchewan synagogue

A 31 year old Saskatchewan man was charged after eggs were thrown at a Saskatoon synagogue and associated vehicles during Shabbat services, police said.

AUGUST 16, 2026|ByALEX CARSON

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

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.

AUGUST 7, 2026|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

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

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.

AUGUST 5, 2026|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

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.

AUGUST 3, 2026ByNOAM BEDEIN

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.

JULY 26, 2026ByMATHILDA HELLER

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.

JULY 25, 2026ByMATHILDA HELLER

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.

JULY 24, 2026ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ

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."

JULY 21, 2026ByESTHER DAVIS

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."

JULY 20, 2026ByMATHILDA HELLER