Israel promises swift response to synagogue shooting
JerusalemReuters Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Saturday a “strong, swift and precise” response to a deadly Palestinian shooting attack near a synagogue on Jerusalem’s outskirts, as its military sent more troops into the occupied West Bank. Seven people were killed in Friday’s attack and two others were wounded in another shooting in the city on […]
A week after Pittsburgh shooting, hundreds #ShowUpForShabbat
RNS At 9:52am, they stood in silence in the cavernous sanctuary of Congregation Beth Shalom in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood here, less than a mile from the Tree of Life synagogue, where at 9:52 last Saturday (27th October), a gunman had begun shooting. Then they sat down to continue the litany of prayers and Torah […]
Updated: Pope Francis condemns “inhuman” attack on Pittsburgh synagogue
Last updated 12pm Vatican CityRNS Pope Francis on Sunday decried the deadly Pittsburgh synagogue attack and prayed that God would help the world “extinguish the eruptions of hatred that are emerging in our societies”. A gunman, 46-year-old Robert Bowers, on Saturday stormed the Tree of Life synagogue in the historic Jewish neighborhood of Squirrel Hill […]