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Illustrative: The Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia in Skopje, Macedonia. (Wikimedia Commons)
April 15, 2026, 3:15 pm
North Macedonian synagogue hit by arson in country’s 1st antisemitic attack since Holocaust
Attack on Skopje synagogue in country with just 200 Jews is latest in a string of such incidents throughout the world
By Zev Stub
A vehicle rams into the gates of Brisbane Synagogue in Queensland, Australia, February 20, 2026. (Screenshot/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 21, 2026, 4:17 pm
Driver charged with hate crime after ramming truck into Brisbane Synagogue
Australian police investigating incident as criminal, not terror; Jewish groups condemn ‘chilling assault on sacred place of worship’
By ToI Staff
Congregants search through the remains of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, which served Pasadena for over 100 years and was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, as wildfires cause damage and loss through the LA region on January 11, 2025 in Pasadena, California (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)
January 15, 2026, 2:52 am
Anti-Zionist graffiti defaces rubble of Pasadena synagogue destroyed in wildfire
The rabbi of the century-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, along with the Anti-Defamation League and local sheriff’s department, decry the vandalism as antisemitic
By Jackie Hajdenberg
This photo provided by Beth Israel Congregation shows damage sustained during a fire, January 10, 2026, at Beth Israel Congregation, in Jackson, Mississippi. (Beth Israel Congregation via AP)
January 12, 2026, 12:39 pm
A ‘deliberate attack on Jews’: Community condemns arson attack on Mississippi synagogue
The pre-dawn blaze at the state’s largest and oldest synagogue, previously bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, has yet to be formally declared a hate crime
By Zev Stub
Fire damage to the Beth Israel Congregation, a synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, January 10, 2026. (Beth Israel Congregation)
January 11, 2026, 4:32 pm
Mississippi’s largest synagogue severely damaged in suspected arson attack
Suspect arrested, but authorities have yet to divulge a motive for attack on 160-year-old Beth Israel Congregation
By Zev Stub
The scene of suspected arson and vandalism at a Jerusalem synagogue that is often attended by Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, June 8, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
June 8, 2025, 1:12 pm
Outrage after arson attack on Jerusalem synagogue of top Shas party rabbi
Some damage to building and prayer books inside, but no injuries at house of worship frequented by former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef; Shin Bet said to treat case as terrorism
By Sam Sokol, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Oheb Shalom Congregation, pictured in 2021. (Screenshot via JTA)
January 28, 2025, 7:36 am
New Jersey synagogue defaced with ‘terrorists’ graffiti for hosting IDF soldier
Protesters outside Oheb Shalom congregation call passersby ‘baby killers,’ spray-paint ‘Terrorists This Way’; officials line up to condemn act
By Ben Sales
A screenshot from security footage showing two women using stencils to spray-paint 'From the river to the sea' outside Temple Beth Zion-Beth in Pennsylvania, March 2024. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 2, 2024, 2:27 pm
Officials condemn anti-Israel, antisemitic graffiti at 2 Pennsylvania synagogues
PA governor, CNN anchor and community leaders decry recent vandalism of Philadelphia-area Jewish institutions with swastika, ‘From the river to the sea’
By JTA and ToI Staff
A new 'ner tamid,' or eternal flame, was constructed from the damaged stained glass that survived an act of arson in 2021. (Courtesy of Congregation Beth Israel and Lori Adelman. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)
September 7, 2023, 5:45 pm
Stained glass from Texas synagogue targeted by arson rebuilt into 3D eternal flame
Congregation Beth Israel holds Shabbat services at building for first time since it was damaged in 2021 attack
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Antisemitic graffiti on Barcelona’s Maimonides Synagogue, April 17, 2023. (Courtesy European Jewish Congress)
April 26, 2023, 11:31 pm
For 2nd time in a month, Barcelona synagogue vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti
Perpetrators write ‘Why are they killing Palestinians’ outside Chabad center; follows a similar incident in another shul on Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day
By Canaan Lidor
Antisemitic graffiti on Barcelona’s Maimonides Synagogue, April 17, 2023. (Courtesy European Jewish Congress)
April 17, 2023, 11:58 pm
Antisemitic graffiti scrawled on Barcelona’s largest synagogue
Vandals spray-paint ‘Free Palestine from the river to the sea,’ leave letters accusing Israel of ‘genocide’; rabbi blames Spanish city’s mayor for suspending twinning with Tel Aviv
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Police tape marks off a Chicago street as officers investigate the scene of a fatal shooting in the city's South Side on June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/ Teresa Crawford/File)
January 31, 2022, 7:33 pm
Chicago synagogue, Jewish school vandalized with antisemitic graffiti
Jewish businesses, synagogue in nearby suburb also reportedly targeted; city council member says the vandalism has ‘all the hallmarks of hate-based crimes’
By AP
Anti-Semitic graffiti found at a synagogue in Carmel, Indiana, July 2018. (Screenshot/WISH)
November 17, 2021, 4:20 pm
New Jersey man sentenced to year in prison for ordering attacks on synagogues
Richard Tobin, 20, plotted with members of US neo-Nazi group ‘The Base’ to vandalize properties belonging to Jewish or Black groups
By Shira Hanau
A fire outside Congregation Beth Israel in Austin, Texas, on October 31, 2021. (Austin Fire Department)
November 16, 2021, 8:40 am
Suspect in Austin synagogue arson kept journal allegedly detailing attack
FBI charges Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, with October vandalism; diary entries on day of incident include ‘Scout out a target’ and ‘I set a synagogue on fire’
By JTA
The settlement of Givat Ze'ev in the West Bank, June 25, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
July 11, 2021, 10:49 am
Synagogue vandalized in West Bank settlement of Givat Ze’ev
Police searching for suspects in community outside Jerusalem; indications don’t point to hate crime
By ToI Staff
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