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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

synagogues

Michael Black of Belfast Hebrew Congregation shows off the synagogue's memorial wall in April 2025. (Rosario Del Valle/ JTA)
June 1, 2025, 4:54 am
Northern Ireland’s lone synagogue staves off decline by engaging Christian neighbors
Challenged by rising antisemitism fueled by the war in Gaza, an aging population, and the departure of a spiritual leader, the congregation is reaching outward to bolster numbers
By Rosario Del Valle
Illustrative: An Israel-based think tank analyzed the sermons given by American rabbis and how they changed after October 7, 2023. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
April 23, 2025, 11:31 am
Think tank analysis of US synagogue sermons finds politics in Israel top topic
Israel-based Jewish People Policy Institute uses AI to review 4,400 speeches from range of dominations, finds content after Oct. 7 Hamas attacks spiked to focus on war situation
By JTA and ToI Staff
Beniamin Levishvili, 23, is the gabbai of the ancient synagogue in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia. His late father Simon and grandfather Ioseb Levishvili held the position before him. (Sofia Poznansky)
April 18, 2025, 8:23 am
In Georgia, a 23-year-old maintains a venerable synagogue, the last remnant of his community
Soviet repression caused most Georgian Jews to flee, leaving behind a 2,500-year-old history whose memory is beginning to fade. In his village, one young man seeks to preserve it
By Sofia Poznansky
The historic Beth-El Zedeck Temple in Indianapolis. (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
March 22, 2025, 6:42 am
5 arrested for breaking into historic Indianapolis synagogue to film music video
Police find group with recording equipment after responding to reports of a burglary at Beth-El Zedeck Temple, which was dedicated 100 years ago
By Grace Gilson
Dr. Jodi Magness from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as she excavates at Huqoq in the Galilee. Magness and her team began excavating the site in 2011 and concluded their fieldwork in 2023. (Jim Haberman)
March 15, 2025, 7:22 am
Could 1,600-year-old Galilee synagogue rewrite history of Jewish life under the Romans?
New radiocarbon dating at grand Huqoq sanctuary near Tiberias puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, suggests Jews in Holy Land still enjoyed ‘relative prosperity’
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: Australian police block a street near a crime scene at Bondi Junction in Sydney, April 14, 2024. (Rick Rycroft/AP)
March 10, 2025, 1:23 pm
Australian police: Organized crime network faked synagogue bomb attack plot
Deputy national security commissioner says suspects prepared explosives, then informed authorities with the aim of ‘changing their criminal status’
By Agencies, Zev Stub and ToI Staff
Students clash with police near the Politecnico University in Turin during a demonstration on December 13, 2024. (MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP)
January 12, 2025, 8:31 pm
Bologna Synagogue attacked in protests after Egyptian-Italian’s death in police chase
Demonstrators throw Molotov cocktails, fireworks at synagogue, spray ‘Justice free Gaza’ on wall near Ramy Elgaml’s name
By ToI Staff
Bakhour Chamntoub, 74, right, the head of the Jewish community in Syria and one of the people who refused to leave Syria despite opportunities abroad and the nearly 14-year-old war, speaks with a Syrian man during his visit to the destroyed Jobar Synagogue, also known as Eliyahu Hanavi, in Jobar neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, December 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
December 29, 2024, 4:19 pm
Assad’s fall enables access to ruined 2,700-year-old Damascus synagogue; only 9 Jews remain
Leader of tiny Syrian community visits destroyed Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in capital’s Jobar neighborhood, recounts years of site being off-limits during civil war
By BASSEM MROUE
A police officer walks past a burnt car being moved on the bed of a towing vehicle in the seaside resort of La Grande Motte, near the city of Montpellier, southern France, on August 26, 2024, following the August 24, 2024 attack to the Beth Yaacov synagogue. (Pascal GUYOT / AFP)
August 29, 2024, 12:50 am
French synagogue attacker who ‘long nursed hatred toward Jews’ faces terror charges
Prosecutors say suspect researched Jewish holidays and Shabbat customs before Saturday’s attack, told acquaintances he wanted to fight in Gaza
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A terror suspect (left) caught on a surveillance camera outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the French seaside resort of La Grande Motte; flames outside the synagogue (right) on August 24, 2024. (X screenshots, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 24, 2024, 12:51 pm
France opens terror probe after blast outside synagogue; suspect seen with Palestinian flag
2 cars set on fire outside Jewish place of worship, gas canister in one of them believed to caused explosion; attacker on the run; Jewish leaders: This was an attempt to kill Jews
By Agencies
Illustrative: This picture taken on December 2, 2023, shows a view of the interior of the newly restored 19th century Jewish synagogue of Ben Ezra in Coptic Cairo. (Photo by Amir MAKAR / AFP)
August 17, 2024, 7:44 am
Study of Cairo’s synagogues reveals an Egyptian Jewish ‘Golden Age’ abruptly ended
In ‘Sacred Places Tell Tales,’ Ben-Gurion University Prof. Yoram Meital examines the modern history of Cairo’s Jews and its thriving pre-1948 community
By Gavriel Fiske
The decorated floor of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, discovered in an archaeological dig in Lithuania, in a photo released on July 25, 2024. (Israel Antiquities Authority)
July 25, 2024, 2:52 pm
Uncovered floor of Vilnius’s Great Synagogue bears witness to Nazi, Soviet devastation
Researchers find one of synagogue’s columns collapsed on its side; 17th-century prayer house, at center of Jewish metropolis, was looted by Germans, razed by Russians
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: CSS has trained over 4,000 volunteers across the country to protect Jewish organizations. (Courtesy of CSS/via JTA)
May 11, 2024, 4:48 pm
At US retreat, volunteer guards train to protect synagogues in post-Oct. 7 world
‘Don’t stand like a mezuzah at the door’: Demand for instruction rises sharply following Hamas attack; drills adapted to include counter-protest tactics
By Luke Tress
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer talks after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, May 1, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
May 6, 2024, 5:12 am
US synagogues and other places of worship get $400 million boost for security
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announces increase in federal funds, citing rampant threats against Jews and Muslims in shadow of Israel-Hamas war
By AP
Rodeph Sholom synagogue, New York (Jim.henderson / Wikipedia)
May 5, 2024, 10:57 pm
Police investigate series of at least 4 bomb threats at New York City synagogues
One community evacuated, building cleared; emailed threats deemed not credible by authorities; Brooklyn Museum also gets message threatening to blow up nearby subway station
By Lisa Keys
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