Tag: Hate Crimes
Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden increase by record-high 53 percent
Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden increased by 53 percent last year compared to 2016, according to its government in a report released last week that showed a 69 percent increase in racist or xenophobic...
Chabad of Poway shooter pleads not guilty to new charge, back in court Dec....
John Earnest, the now 20-year-old man charged with shooting and killing congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, and wounding three people, including senior Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, at Chabad of Poway in Southern California during Shabbat-morning services on...
Russian-American attacker on the lam, wanted by FBI, aims to ‘slaughter’ Jews
The FBI is looking for a Russian-American man who yelled that he “wanted” to “slaughter” Jews after he failed to report to prison for assaulting a man he thought was Jewish.
Izmir Ali Koch, 34,...
Justice demands the death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter
The reaction to the decision of the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue the death penalty for Robert Bowers from the Jewish community was entirely predictable. The man who stands accused of perpetrating the...
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...