Clay Crystal was sitting on his front porch in Jackson, Mississippi, as a child in 1967 when he heard the thunderous sound of an explosion echo through his neighborhood. “I had no idea what it was,” said Crystal, who was 13 at the time. He’d later learn from his father, then president of the Beth…
LONDON (Reuters) -One of the victims killed in Thursday’s attack at a synagogue in Manchester was shot by police during their attempts to bring the unarmed attacker under control, officers said on Friday in a statement. “It is currently believed that the suspect, Jihad Al Shamie, was not in possession of a firearm and the…
Federal officials have sued two pro-Palestinian groups and some demonstrators involved in a heated protest last year outside a synagogue in northern New Jersey, citing a law traditionally used to prevent people from blocking access to abortion and reproductive health clinics. The civil lawsuit filed Monday by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division stems from…