1958 ⟶ Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple Bombing
The Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing occurred o...
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1958
1967
🧨 Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple Bombing
The Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing occurred on 12 October 1958. The Temple, on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, housed a Reform Jewish congregation. The building was damaged extensively by the dynamite-fueled explosion, although no one was injured. Five suspects were arrested almost immediately after the bombing. One of them, George Bright, was tried twice. His first trial ended with a hung jury and his second with an acquittal. As a result of Bright's acquittal the other suspects were not tried, and no one was ever convicted of the bombing.⟶
Hebrew Benevolent CongregationTemple bombingAtlantaGeorgiaAnti-SemitismCivil Rights MovementUnsolved crimeDynamite
United States💥 Bombing Attempt at Temple Beth-El
On 28 April 1958, Birmingham, Alabama, 54 sticks of Dynamite were placed outside Temple Beth-El in a bombing attempt. According to police reports, the burning fuses were doused by heavy rainfall, preventing the Dynamite from exploding. Although the crime was never solved, police considered Bobby Frank Cherry, later convicted of bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, to be a suspect.⟶
Temple Beth-ElBombing attemptBirminghamAlabamaCivil Rights MovementAnti-SemitismWhite SupremacyUnsolved crime
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
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