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Australia holds first funeral for Bondi Beach attack victims
AFP, Published on 17/12/2025
» SYDNEY — Australia held the first funeral Wednesday for victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, as large crowds gathered to grieve a rabbi slain in the attack.
Man plotted to kill Jews on Oct 7 anniversary
New York Times, Published on 07/09/2024
» WASHINGTON — A Pakistani citizen was arrested in Quebec this week and accused of plotting to kill "as many Jewish civilians as possible" in New York City on or near the first anniversary of the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israelis, according to a Justice Department complaint unsealed Friday.
Questions mount about how Florida building could have crumbled
AFP, Published on 28/06/2021
» SURFSIDE (UNITED STATES) - Questions mounted Monday about how a residential building in the Miami area could have collapsed so quickly and violently last week, killing at least nine people with more than 150 still unaccounted for, as desperate families feared the worst.
Israeli team reaches Florida building collapse, 156 still missing
AFP, Published on 27/06/2021
» SURFSIDE, US: A team of Israeli search-and-rescue specialists on Sunday joined American workers at the site of a Florida apartment building that partially collapsed Thursday, killing at least five people with 156 still missing.
In New York, pandemic pushes some Orthodox Jews to leave their community
AFP, Published on 04/04/2021
» NEW YORK - Two months into lockdown, 29-year-old Ella left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that she was raised in near New York, started wearing trouser pants for the first time and contacted an organization that helps "leavers" adapt to life in wider society.
Authorities stop short of dubbing US kosher deli attack anti-Semitic
AFP, Published on 12/12/2019
» JERSEY CITY (UNITED STATES) - US authorities held back Wednesday from characterizing a firefight that left six people including two suspects dead in a New York suburb as motivated by anti-Semitism, as the local mayor confirmed the assailants targeted a kosher grocery store.
Virulent anti-Semitism emerges from US white supremacists
AFP, Published on 30/04/2019
» WASHINGTON - The deadly shootings targeting synagogues in California and Pittsburgh have raised concerns that anti-Semitic hatred is increasingly a rallying point for America's resurgent white supremacists.
Rabbi wounded in US synagogue shooting says Jews won't be cowed
AFP, Published on 29/04/2019
» POWAY (UNITED STATES) - A rabbi who carried on preaching despite being wounded in the latest deadly shooting at a US synagogue said Sunday that Jews would not be intimidated by the "senseless hate" of anti-semitism.
One dead, three injured in US synagogue shooting
AFP, Published on 28/04/2019
» LOS ANGELES: A gunman opened fire at a synagogue in California, killing one person and injuring three others including the rabbi as worshippers marked the final day of Passover, officials said Saturday.
Holocaust museum stokes controversy among Hungary's Jews
AFP, Published on 26/01/2019
» BUDAPEST - As the world prepares to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, Hungarian Jews find themselves divided in a bitter dispute over the long-delayed opening of a new Holocaust museum in Budapest.