Police have charged a 62-year-old Ottawa man with sexual assault of a girl at an Ottawa synagogue in 2022. Investigators said the alleged victim was under the age of 14. Aklilu Afowerk was charged ...

Benjamin Klein can no longer enter his synagogue through the front door. He has to go down a back alley, unlock a door, and then unzip a plastic contamination shield. More than three months ago ...

A fake plan to attack on a Sydney synagogue using a caravan of explosives was fabricated by an organized crime network in order to divert police resources, Australian police said on Monday.

Syrian-American Rabbi Youssef Hamra leads the first Jewish group prayer in Syria since the 1990s, in the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Old City. — LOUAI BESHARA Syria's tiny ...

Purim is a Jewish holiday that celebrates events told in the Book of Esther. Synagogues throughout the island this week marked the Jewish holiday of Purim with festive celebrations. The holiday ho ...

But there was a big, and unexpected, difference this week for members of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center: Instead of convening in their synagogue’s 80-year-old building, they were in the ...

(JTA) — More than 80 years after one of Germany’s most prominent synagogues was destroyed on Kristallnacht, the Jewish community of Hamburg has taken ownership of the building’s site and is ...

Carlota America Ruiz stood outside Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom with a locksmith and a court order. Ruiz had prayed at the Williamsburg synagogue since the 1980s. It’s where she completed ...