Tag: Hate Crimes
Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Tree of Life Pittsburgh shooter
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Robert Bowers, who is accused of killing 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, according to a...
Suspect arrested in Crown Heights anti-Semitic attack
A 39-year-old man was arrested over the weekend in connection with an anti-Semitic attack that took place on Friday evening in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., just before the beginning of Shabbat.
The...
Prominent Jewish woman, 60, stabbed and critically injured in Sweden
A 60-year-old Jewish woman was stabbed and critically injured on Tuesday in Helsingborg, Sweden, where she is known to be a prominent member of the Jewish community.
Reports suggest the suspect, who is on the...
Ohio man arrested for planning attack on synagogue
A 21-year-old man from Holland Ohio, was arrested by the FBI on Friday for planning an attack on a local synagogue.
Damon Joseph was charged with a count of attempting to provide material support to...
Upsurge in anti-Semitic crimes in America in 2017
The United States saw a significant upsurge in anti-Semitic crimes last year, and accounted for more than half of all religion-based hate crimes.
According to data released by the FBI on Tuesday, 58 percent of all...
Chicago Jewish community shaken by death of Eliyahu Moscowitz
Since the shooting death of Eliyahu Moscowitz in the Rogers Park area of Chicago earlier this week, a dark cloud has hovered over the Jewish community in the nearby West Rogers Park neighborhood.
“There is...
Orthodox Jew, 24, murdered in suspected serial killing in Chicago
A 24-year-old observant Jew was murdered on Tuesday in Chicago’s Loyola Park, the target of a possible serial killer.
Eliyahu Moscowitz, a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch community and a kashrut supervisor at Jewel-Osco, the primary...
Thousands march in Paris following murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, 85
Thousands of people took part in a “white march” in Paris on Wednesday in memory of Mireille Knoll, a 85-year-old French Jewish woman whose horrific murder provoked a strong emotional reaction and revived worries...
French authorities arrest two suspects connected with Holocaust-survivor’s murder
French police discovered the charred body of a Holocaust survivor covered with stab wounds after a fire broke out in her Paris apartment on Friday. The local Jewish community fears the murder was motivated by anti-Semitism,...
Hate crimes targeting Muslims and Jews have increased during Donald Trump’s rise to power....
There was a 67 percent increase in antisemitic incidents across the United States from January 1 to September 30, 2017 in comparison with the same period in 2016, according to the Anti Defamation League’s...