Rabbi Myers and others described feeling encouraged by the image of President Biden embracing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a visit to Israel last week. “It was so reassuring at a time when you wonder, Where are your friends?” he said. The attacks have inspired a wave of menace on social media, street harassment and…
The president of a synagogue in Detroit was found brutally killed near her home, though the authorities have not yet established a motive. The president, Samantha Woll, 40, who led the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, was the victim of a homicide, Dana Nessel, the attorney general, said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.…
A man wearing a ski mask lit the wick of a Molotov cocktail and hurled it at the front door of a synagogue in Bloomfield, N.J., early on Sunday morning, the latest episode in an uptick of harassment and violence targeting Jews and Jewish institutions, the authorities said. The Molotov cocktail’s bottle broke, and the…