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The Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where a mass shooting took place during Shabbat services on Oct. 27, 2018. Source: Google Maps screenshot.

Judge rules death penalty still on table for alleged Tree of Life shooter

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In an 11-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Robert Colville ruled that the defendant’s legal team in the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue shooting trial “fails entirely” to show that the government arbitrarily pursued the...
Lebanese-Canadian academic Hassan Diab is currently on trial for a synagogue bombing in Paris on Oct. 3, 1980. Source: YouTube/CBC News.

Prosecution begins of Hassan Diab, charged with 1980 Paris synagogue bombing

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On Oct. 3, 1980, someone planted a bomb outside a Paris synagogue as 320 Jews gathered to celebrate Simchat Torah. The explosion killed four people and wounded 46 others. No group claimed responsibility, and...
Hamid Nouri on trial in Sweden on May 2, 2022 Credit: Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s ‘death corridor’ is open for business

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Iran thrust its way back into the news cycle last week as U.S. President Joe Biden embarked on a four-day tour of the Middle East beginning in Israel, but arguably, the most significant event...
Entrance to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Credit: Chiode via Wikimedia Commons.

Neo-Nazi who performed Hitler salute at Buchenwald goes on trial

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A neo-Nazi in the United Kingdom is on trial for allegedly being part of a banned extremist group performed a Hitler salute in the Buchenwald concentration camp, reported The Jewish Chronicle. Alex Davies, 27, “went on...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin confers with his legal staff at the District Court in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

Pegasus scandal may impact Netanyahu corruption trial, experts say

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Those calling for an end to the Netanyahu corruption trial felt the wind at their backs earlier this month following bombshell revelations that the Israel Police may have used Pegasus software to spy on...
Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Jewish woman brutally murdered in her apartment, was a Holocaust survivor. She had managed to evade as a child the 1942 Vel d’Hiv Nazi-directed roundup by French police of more than 13,000 Jews who were sent to Nazi death camps.

Murderer of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll sentenced to life

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A French court on Wednesday sentenced Yacine Mihoub to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, for the 2018 murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll. A second man, Alexander Carrimbacus,...
An illustration of a judge's gavel. Credit: corgarashu/Shutterstock.

Jewish death-row inmate wins new trial in Texas, citing judge’s anti-Semitic slurs

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A Dallas County judge ordered that Jewish death-row inmate Randy Halprin should get a new trial after considering evidence that the judge who presided over his case was biased against Jews. Halprin, 44, claimed that former Dallas County judge...
The entrance to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Credit: Gubin Yury/Shutterstock.

Concentration-camp guard to stand trial for 3,518 murders between 1942 and 1945

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A former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp who will stand trial in Germany this month is accused of being complicit in 3,518 murders, reported The Times. The 100-year-old man, whose name has not been released...
The entrance to the Bundesgerichtshof, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, Germany, the highest court in Germany. Credit: Shutterstock.

German prosecutors prepare dozen-plus cases against Nazi war-crime suspects

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Prosecutors in Germany are getting ready to bring forward more than a dozen legal cases against elderly men and women for their alleged work at Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Prosecutors confirmed last week that a...
Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, in December 1938. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

German court to try 100-year-old former Nazi guard

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A German court set a date to try a 100-year-old former Nazi SS guard who served at a concentration camp outside of Berlin during World War II, a spokeswoman for the Neuruppin state court...