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Manchester police arrest suspect in Yom Kippur shul attack

JNS — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 06:58:19 +0000

British detectives investigating the Oct. 2 Yom Kippur terrorist attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester have arrested an additional suspect, Greater Manchester Police said on Thursday. A 31-year-old man was arrested at Manchester Airport “on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism after arriving on an inbound flight,” […]

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King visits Manchester synagogue attacked by ‘IS supporter’

Reuters — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:36:59 +0000

King Charles has visited a synagogue in northern England where two Jewish worshippers were killed earlier this month during an attack by a man who told police he was acting for the Islamic State group. Charles, 76, travelled to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in the Crumpsall district of Manchester to show support to […]

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Texas synagogue gunman British, says FBI

AAP — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 06:46:03 +0000

A gunman who took four people hostage at a Dallas-area synagogue and was himself killed as federal agents stormed the temple has been identified as a British citizen, while police in England say they have detained two teenagers for questioning in the investigation. The day-long siege at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, about […]

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British Labour Party engulfed by convergence of the far left and antisemitism

Agencies — Sat, 07 May 2016 08:16:32 +0000

Jewish leaders in the United Kingdom have voiced their displeasure with the Labour Party in the wake of a scandal on antisemitism within its ranks continuing to engulf the country’s second-largest party.

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A first Rosh Hashanah

Henry Benjamin — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 03:41:38 +0000

Sydney's Great Synagogue's new Chief Minister Rabbi Dr Ben Elton was inducted less than a week before Rosh Hashanah...he tells J-Wire of his first Rosh Hashanah in Sydney.

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