1999 ⟶ Arson Attacks on Synagogues and an Abortion Clinic in Sacramento
There were arson attacks in Sacramento, California – Congreg...
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🕌 Jews Accused of Arson in Damascus
The Jews of Damascus are accused by Muslims of setting fire to the central mosque. Although there was no evidence presented, one Jew was burned alive, the leaders of the community were tortured, and the local synagogue was appropriated into a mosque.⟶
AccusationArsonDamascusReligious PersecutionViolenceLate Middle AgesJewish CommunitySynagogue
Syria💥 Synagogue Firebombing and Shooting in Mississippi
On 25 March, 1960, the synagogue Congregation Beth Israel and its members were subject to an antisemitic attack. About 180 members were attending a Friday evening service to dedicate the new Zemurray Social Hall, and led by then-rabbi Saul Rubin and Rev. John Speaks and Dr. Franklin Denson of First Methodist Church, when windows were smashed and the synagogue fire-bombed. Two members—Alvin Lowi and Alan Cohn—who rushed out to see what was happening were met by Jerry Hunt, a 16-year-old Nazi sympathizer, who wounded them both with a shotgun, then fled. Lowi was just shot in the hand, but one of Cohn's aortas was nicked, and he almost died, requiring 22 US pints (10 L) of blood. Earlier that week Hunt had attended a rally for antisemitic and white supremacist politician John G. Crommelin, and had had a fight with a Jewish boy over a chess game at the Gadsden Community Centre.⟶
AntisemitismViolenceSynagogueHate CrimeWhite Supremacy1960sCivil Rights MovementSouthern United States
United States💥 Dynamite Bombing of Congregation Beth Israel
In 1967, Congregation Beth Israel moved to its current location, a building on Old Canton Road described by Jack Nelson as "an octagonal structure dominated by a massive roof". On 18 September 1967 the new building was wrecked by a dynamite bomb placed by Klan members in a recessed doorway. According to Nelson, the explosion had "ripped through administrative offices and a conference room, torn a hole in the ceiling, blown out windows, ruptured a water pipe and buckled a wall." The perpetrators were not discovered. In November of that year the same group planted a bomb that blew out the front of the house of Dr. Perry Nussbaum (Beth Israel's rabbi from 1954 to 1973), while he and his wife were sleeping there.⟶
AntisemitismViolenceSynagogueHate CrimeKu Klux Klan1960sCivil Rights MovementSouthern United States
United States🔫 Joseph Paul Franklin's Synagogue Shooting in St. Louis
In suburban St. Louis, Missouri, Joseph Paul Franklin hid in the bushes near a Shaare Zedek Synagogue (University City, Missouri) and fired on a group attending services. In this incident, Franklin killed forty-two-year-old Gerald Gordon and wounded Steven Goldman and William Ash.⟶
Joseph Paul FranklinNeo-NazismWhite SupremacySynagogue Shooting1970sHate CrimeViolence
United States🔥 Arson Attacks on Synagogues and an Abortion Clinic in Sacramento
There were arson attacks in Sacramento, California – Congregation B'nai Israel, Congregation Beth Shalom, and Knesset Israel Torah Center. The fires caused over $1 million in damage. On 17 March 2000, brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams were charged with setting the three synagogue fires and a 2 July fire at the Country Club Medical center, which housed an abortion clinic. The charges carried up to 235 years in prison. Matthew Williams later admitted to reporters that he was one of eight or nine men who set fire to the synagogues and the clinic; he also claimed that his brother Tyler had not been involved.⟶
ArsonSynagogueHate CrimeCaliforniaNeo-NazismDomestic TerrorismViolenceReligious Violence
United States of America🔫 Buford O. Furrow Jr. Commits Los Angeles Jewish Community Center Shooting
Buford O. Furrow, Jr. kills mail carrier Joseph Santos Ileto and shoots five people in the August 1999 Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.⟶
Los AngelesJewish Community Center ShootingHate CrimeNeo-NaziViolenceMass ShootingAnti-SemitismDomestic Terrorism
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