An arson attack on Thursday gutted part of a church at the traditional site of what Christianity reveres as Jesus’s miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, the Israeli fire brigade said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service to launch a top-priority…
An arson attack damaged a Greek Orthodox seminary near Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday and anti-Christian graffiti in Hebrew at the scene suggested the incident was a hate crime. Police said no one was injured by the blaze in a bathroom of the seminary, which came a day after part of a Palestinian mosque was…
A Jewish settler was sentenced to three years in prison for setting several Palestinian cars alight in a West Bank village. Binyamin Richter was sentenced Monday by the Lod District Court for the price tag attack in November 2013 in the Palestinian village of Farata. He also was sentenced to 12 months probation and ordered…
(Reuters) — The Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem presents an almost too-perfect scene in a tense and divided city, where Jews and Arabs do daily business but rarely befriend one other. Classrooms are decorated with pictures of doves bearing olive branches, while pupils from both communities are as likely to greet their bilingual teachers with…
Courtesy of Zekaï Hours after the attempted arson of a Paris kosher restaurant, a group of French teenagers assaulted a Jewish adolescent outside a school. Unidentified vandals tried to burn down the Zekaï sushi restaurant in the 17th arrondissement located 4 miles west of the school, according to a report of the incident by the…
A synagogue leader’s car exploded in a suspected arson attack in Atlantic City, N.J. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, several hours after the close of Rosh Hashanah, police discovered a Ford Explorer engulfed in flames outside Congregation Rodef Sholom, an Orthodox shul. The fire caused severe damage to the parking lot and the…
Belgian prosecutors are investigating a fire at a synagogue in Brussels on Tuesday, which they say was set intentionally but does not seem to have been a “terrorist attack”, a spokesman said. The blaze broke out early on Tuesday morning causing damage and lightly injuring three people in the building. “From an initial investigation, we…
A fire that destroyed two kosher restaurants in Hollywood, Florida will be investigated as suspicious. A fire early Sunday morning destroyed the Achla Pita Grill and Bon Ami Café, located adjacent to each other at a shopping plaza in a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. The restaurants are both owned by Ilan…
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