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Police cars at the scene of a shooting with a replica gun outside a synagogue in Toronto on May 8, 2026 (Screen grab/CTV News)
May 10, 2026, 12:07 pm
2026 ‘most violent year in recent memory’ for Canada’s Jews, B’nai Brith warns
Country has already seen 11 violent attacks this year, surpassing the total for all of 2025: ‘A crisis of antisemitism that has spiraled out of control’
By Zev Stub
Rabbi Matt Cutler speaks with WNYT on March 12, 2026. (Courtesy Matt Cutler/ JTA)
March 20, 2026, 3:10 am
Threatening messages, and an arrest, bring antisemitism close to home for a New York rabbi
Rabbi Matt Cutler stresses the need for vigilance following a Detroit area synagogue attack, amid the Iran war and one of the most challenging times for US Jewish security in modern history
By Grace Gilson
Law enforcement vehicles are seen parked outside Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 13, 2026, a day after a ramming and shooting attack on the Jewish house of worship; inset, suspect Ayman Ghazali. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP; X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
March 15, 2026, 6:45 pm
IDF says slain brother of Michigan synagogue attacker was a Hezbollah commander
Army confirms reports linking Ayman Ghazali to terror operative who oversaw Lebanon-based group’s weapons operations and was killed in Israeli strike
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Rabbi Josh Bennett of Temple Israel unravels the Torah during a Bat Mitzvah service at Tam O'Shanter Country Club on March 13, 2026 in West Bloomfield, Michigan. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images/AFP)
March 14, 2026, 6:46 am
US Jewish security groups warn of ‘most elevated and complex threat environment’ in recent history
Though it was thwarted, director of Community Security Initiative says Michigan synagogue attack may be a ‘tipping point’ toward ‘Europeanization of security’ for American Jewry
By Joseph Strauss and Jackie Hajdenberg
Law enforcement vehicles are seen parked outside Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 13, 2026, a day after a ramming and shooting attack on the Jewish house of worship; inset, suspect Ayman Ghazali. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP; X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
March 14, 2026, 5:50 am
FBI: Attacker shot himself after getting stuck in car he rammed into Michigan synagogue
Bureau says Ayman Ghazali fired at armed guard prior to killing himself, had waited two hours outside Temple Israel before smashing vehicle carrying fireworks and gas into building
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Law enforcement respond to Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
March 13, 2026, 8:34 pm
Director of targeted Michigan synagogue: ‘Instincts took over,’ our training kicked in
Staff and security team at Temple Israel followed security protocol to save lives, says leader who was overwhelmed by smoke in his office during attack
By Luke Tress
Police tape hangs outside the Temple Israel synagogue March 13, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. (AP/Paul Sancya)
March 13, 2026, 3:41 pm
Michigan synagogue attacker’s brothers said to be Hezbollah members killed in IDF strike
Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, was US-Lebanese national; source tells NBC he was questioned on potential terror ties upon his return from overseas trips; CBS says brothers were in rocket unit
By ToI Staff, Leon Kraiem and Agencies
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators rally on opposite sides of the street in front of the Roy Thompson Hall, where the documentary 'The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue' is showing, during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 10, 2025. (VALERIE MACON / AFP)
March 13, 2026, 8:15 am
‘Every light is flashing’: After shootings at synagogues, Canada’s Jews fear what’s next
Community leaders worry a Bondi Beach-type attack is around the corner after years of unchecked antisemitism; they’re hopeful lawmakers will finally heed the warnings
By Zev Stub
A New York City Police Department vehicle is parked outside a synagogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, October 7, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
February 6, 2026, 4:28 pm
US Jewish leaders express alarm over new political conditions for synagogue security grants
Houses of worship that don’t cooperate with ICE or that offer DEI programming are worried new terms will make them ineligible for funding that helps cover essential safety measures
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Police stationed outside a Manhattan synagogue, November 4, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
December 12, 2024, 2:41 am
Fate of Jewish man facing sentencing over 2022 synagogue threat divides a NYC community
After a white supremacist was arrested for a gun plot, Matthew Mahrer pleaded guilty to related firearms charges. Supporters say he should be given an alternative to prison time
By Luke Tress
Armed gunman Stephan Balliet, on a street in Halle, Germany, during a shooting outside a synagogue in that city which killed two, October 9, 2019. (Screenshot/Andreas Splett/ATV-Studio Halle/AFP)
February 27, 2024, 3:13 pm
German synagogue attacker gets 7 more years for taking hostages in failed jailbreak
Far-right extremist already serving life sentence for attempt to break into a synagogue on Yom Kippur in 2019 that he broadcast online before killing 2 passersby
By AP
Albany police officers gather outside Temple Israel, December 7, 2023, in Albany, New York.(AP Photo/Maysoon Khan)
December 8, 2023, 6:04 pm
Man arrested after firing shots at Albany, NY, synagogue, shouting ‘Free Palestine’
Attack on house of worship, with preschool, highlights the steep rise in antisemitic hate crimes outside Israel since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre and Israel’s war on the terror group
By Luke Tress
Zioness founder Amanda Berman at a vigil in New York City for victims of the October 7 Hamas atrocities. (Courtesy)
October 27, 2023, 1:55 pm
On Tree of Life shooting anniversary, liberal US Jews mourn alone over Hamas atrocities
Many Jewish progressives find that unlike the outpouring of support five years ago, allies don’t show up for Israel, regardless of magnitude and brutality of the violence suffered
By Danielle Ziri
Pittsburgh Jewish Federation CEO Jeff Finkelstein speaks to the press after a jury find the gunman who shot 11 Jewish worshipers guilty of federal crimes. The writer kneels at lower left, in Pittsburgh, June 16, 2023. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Union Progress via Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA)
August 15, 2023, 3:44 am
A Jewish journalist’s experience covering the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Veteran JTA reporter tells of his conflicted, emotionally tolling odyssey, from day the 2018 Tree of Life massacre took 11 lives through recent conclusion of the murderer’s trial
By Ron Kampeas
A guard tower looms over a federal prison complex which houses a Supermax facility outside Florence, in southern Colorado, October 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)
July 29, 2023, 3:56 pm
Prosecutors cite Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s good behavior in plea for death row
In another strange twist in trial for 2018 murder of 11 Jewish worshipers, lawyers say defendant is a model prisoner unlikely to serve time in maximum-security Supermax prison
By Ron Kampeas
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