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Canadian police at the scene of a shooting near Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, September 20, 2026. (Screenshot/CBC)

'It was boom, boom, boom. We ran to auditorium, closed doors'

Gunman opens fire outside Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur; police officer seriously wounded

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Shooting took place at start of Sunday Yom Kippur eve services at Sons of Jacob Synagogue, nobody hurt inside building; dozens of bullets fired; police say likely a hate crime

Palestinian rescue workers operate on a destroyed vehicle following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza city, September 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Live updates (closed)

Sept. 21: IDF says it struck Hamas targets in Gaza after unmanned engineering vehicle hit by bomb

By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff

‘Dad, thank you for saving my life’: Terror victim Netanel Shukrun laid to rest * Suspect in Ontario synagogue shooting identified as Sean Ward, injured cop as Jeff Smith

8:18 pm

Vermont man convicted of attempted murder in Nov. 2023 shooting of three Palestinian students
7:32 pm

Trump administration said to propose investing $5 billion in rebuilding Gulf energy sites after Iran war
7:08 pm

IDF says striking Hamas targets in Gaza after unmanned engineering vehicle hit by bomb

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City delivers a speech at the synagogue, May 27, 2026. (Courtesy/Lenny Medina/RetroLenz Photography)

Leading US Reform rabbi in Yom Kippur sermon: Unhinged, obsessive loathing of Israel is corrupting US values

Ammiel Hirsch warns that if antisemitism is allowed to spread, ‘it is not only Jews who will pay the price, America will too’; says Jewish voters should only back politicians ‘who support us’

German Chancellor and leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz addresses a press conference, one day after state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Berlin on September 21, 2026. (Jens SCHLUETER/AFP)

Far-right AfD, Germany's most popular party, scores fresh win

Merz defiant after huge defeats in 2 state elections, says Germany’s ‘democratic future’ at stake, Jewish life ‘no longer safe’

By Frank Zeller

Leading far-right candidate predicts chancellor ‘won’t make it to the end of the year’; Merz cancels trip to UN, as his junior coalition partner says ‘things can’t go on’

AfD party leader Alice Weidel, center, walks behind top candidates Leif-Erik Holm and Kristin Brinker before a press conference of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) in Berlin, Germany, after the previous day's two state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, September 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Far-right AfD tops a German state election for second time in a month; Merz rues ‘disaster’

By Oliver Denzer and James Mackenzie

AfD co-leader Alice Weidel (center right) and the party's Berlin lead candidate Kristin Brinker (center left) at a press conference after state election in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in Berlin, September 21, 2026. Also present are Leif-Erik Holm, the AfD's candidate for state premier in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and the party's co-leader Tino Chrupalla. (Reuters)

AnalysisAfter more German election gains, it’s getting harder to keep far-right AfD from power

By Rachel Moore and Christoph Steitz

Rooted in E. Germany's gov't, party wants Germany out of NATO

Far-left Elif Eralp set to become Berlin mayor, as her Die Linke party tops elections

By Pierrick Yvon

Daughter of Turkish migrants calls Mamdani ‘great role model,’ says she wants to foster city’s Jewish life; recent party campaign concert featured performer’s ‘Death to the IDF’ chants, call for intidfada

The Die Linke (Left Party’s) main candidate Elif Eralp celebrates on stage following exit polls in Berlin’s state elections in Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin on September 20, 2026. (Jens SCHLUETER/AFP)

2025 aerial imagery published by govmap.gov.il shows nine Israeli military bases in the northern Gaza Strip. (govmap.gov.il via @Stinky915846091 on X)

Official Israeli map website reveals location of IDF bases in Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Unblurred aerial imagery published by govmap shows 11 military sites in the Strip’s north, contrary to usual policy

Palestinian rescue workers operate on a destroyed vehicle following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza city, September 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

IDF says it killed 3 Hamas operatives in Gaza over weekend, including two Oct. 7 terrorists

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A view of the Kol HaNeshama synagogue building in Jerusalem, July 8, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Jerusalem Reform synagogue vandalized on Yom Kippur, in third attack in a month

Assailants damage Kol HaNeshama days after youths pelted worshipers with eggs; Reform movement says recent incidents cannot be treated as isolated

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

The Yom Kippur lesson Israel still needs after October 7

No inquiry can guarantee that an Israeli ’conception’ won’t collapse down the road, but it can turn a catastrophe into an event we learn from, and that’s worth it

Henry Greenspan

The Trail Book of Life

Hiking in the Adirondacks on Yom Kippur yielded its own kind of spiritual resplendence, though I couldn’t stop myself poking fun at fellow transgressors there

Houthis push for control of Yemen highlands as Trump reported to have called off airstrikes

By Mohammed Ghobari and Jana Choukeir

Conflict intensifies in mountains between Red Sea and Indian Ocean coasts; Saudi airstrikes fail to dislodge fighters

Supporters of Yemen’s Houthi rebels dance during a rally to mark the 12th anniversary of the fall of Sanaa to the Houthis, in Sanaa, Yemen, September 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

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Pew poll finds majority of Israelis and Palestinians say two-state coexistence impossible

New survey shows just 17% of Israelis and 21% of Palestinians in West Bank and East Jerusalem see path to peaceful two-state outcome; respondents cite land, security and deep distrust

Illustrative: A placard in the shape of Israel with the colors of the Palestinian flag, and Arabic that reads 'Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine,' at a barbed wire surrounding the Israeli security barrier, with the Israeli settlement of Mod’in Ilit in the background, during a protest against Israel and the US in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, January 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

A general view of the exterior of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands, March 12, 2025. (AP/Omar Havana, File)

Trump administration set to announce sanctions against entire ICC, sources say

By Humeyra Pamuk and Anthony Deutsch

Unprecedented move against International Criminal Court, which issued arrest warrant against Netanyahu, could be finalized this week

Flame and smoke is seen rising from Moscow’s oil refinery in the south east of the city following a largescale Ukrainian drone attack, September 20, 2026. (UGC via AP)

Ukraine targets Moscow in ‘largest ever’ drone attack on city

By AP

Two killed, 20 wounded, refinery hit during Russian parliamentary elections; Zelensky says strikes targeted ‘billions of dollars that sustain the war machine’

Rabbi Noa Kushner, founding rabbi of The Kitchen in San Francisco, is the author of 'Pretend You Believe: How to Enter Religion.' (Schocken via JTA)

Interview

We need religion, writes rabbi in her new book, but it’s not there to make our lives better

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Noa Kushner urges Jews to stop asking what Judaism can do for them and start asking what it means to enter into a relationship with God in ‘Pretend You Believe,’ on shelves Oct. 13

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