A besieged gunman suspected of shooting dead seven people in the name of al Qaeda boasted to police on Wednesday he had brought France to its knees and said his only regret was not having been able to carry out his plans for more killings.
India has issued arrest warrants for three Iranians in connection with a bomb attack on an Israeli Embassy car.
A man suspected of setting a fire in a Southern California synagogue is facing 19 felony charges of burglary and arson. Dmitry Sheyko, 21, is in custody in Los Angeles, charged with the April 14 fire at Temple Israel of Hollywood, according to The Associated Press. He is charged as well with breaking into several homes near Beverly Hills.
A suspect has been identified in a series of attacks on Jewish targets at Indiana University.
A second suspect in an alleged hate crime attack against a Jewish man in Eugene, Ore., has turned himself in.
Until now, the 1964 murders of three civil rights campaigners has been unresolved. The recent arrest of a suspect in the Mississippi murders of Andrew Goodwin and Michael Schwerner — both Jews — and James Chaney, a black man, has re-focused attention on a relationship once bound in blood.
As Jews prepare to mark Martin Luther King Day, however, to what extent have black-Jewish relations shifted from their historic marriage?
\”It\’s a little bit unnerving for an Orthodox Jewish boy from Brooklyn,\” says Rabbi Chaim Kolodny, after he found himself an instant media celebrity for tracking down a suspected serial rapist.\n\n\”Every local TV and radio station and newspapers from as far away as New York must have called me Friday when I was trying to get ready for Shabbos,\” adds the 31-year-old Kolodny, director of the Cheder of Los Angeles boys\’ and girls\’ schools.
Almost nine months after the brutal prison-yard slaying of Earl Krugel, the longtime No. 2 man in the Jewish Defense League (JDL), federal authorities have indicted an inmate with no apparent ties to Krugel.\n\nThe suspect, David Frank Jennings, 30, allegedly attacked Krugel from behind with a piece of concrete hidden in a bag while Krugel was using an exercise machine at a federal prison in Phoenix.\n\n
A reputed gangster who calls himself \”a simple Jew from Kiev\” has emerged as the central suspect in an international bank-fraud probe that investigators term the biggest money-laundering case in history.
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