Synagogue

At a press conference on Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he is immediately declaring places of worship as essential and threatened to “override” any governors that prevent them from opening this weekend. He did not not cite any specific authority to enforce the command.

An annual celebration for the Jewish holiday of Purim usually takes place at Lakewood’s Kollel Ner Avrohom Synagogue. Due to concerns of the coronavirus however, it was canceled this year. NBC10’s Ted Greenberg has the details.

Police are searching for a man after he allegedly vandalized a Beverly Hills Synagogue early Saturday morning. The man allegedly broke into the Nessah Synagogue where he overturned furniture, damaged relics and ransacked the inside. The synagogue’s main scrolls were not damaged during the vandalism, according to police. Police do not believe anything was stolen during the incident. Police...

A two-week span in January illustrated the scope of this somber phenomenon. In Thailand, a group of separatist insurgents attacked a Buddhist temple, killing the abbot and one of his fellow monks. In the Philippines, two suicide attackers detonated bombs during a Mass in a Roman Catholic cathedral on the largely Muslim island of Jolo, killing 23 and wounding about…

Police believe a lightning strike caused a fire at a New Jersey synagogue.

Vandals have posted a banner containing an anti-Jewish slur on a Holocaust memorial at a synagogue in a New Jersey shore town where several residents were recently accused of misrepresenting their incomes to improperly obtain public welfare benefits.

Police arrested a teen boy accused of damaging a Northeast Philadelphia synagogue.

For the third time in recent months, a Northeast Philadelphia synagogue is cleaning up broken glass left by vandals.

for the third time in recent months, a rock was thrown through a window at Temple Menorah-Keneseth Chai on Tyson Avenue.

A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the repeated vandalism of a Philadelphia synagogue.

Police have charged a man with murder in connection with the home-invasion killing of a popular member of a Philadelphia synagogue.