Category: Jewish community

NYPD Counterterrorism Force Thwarts Threat to Jewish Community

The New York Police Department (NYPD) stopped a threat to the Jewish community on Saturday in a joint effort with the FBI, the police department said. “The FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, NYPD Counterterrorism and Intelligence Bureau investigators, working with their law enforcement partners, uncovered a developing threat to the Jewish community on Friday,” NYPD…


Poway Synagogue Shooter Set for Sentencing in San Diego Federal Court

SAN DIEGO—A young man who carried out a hate-motivated shooting at the Chabad of Poway that killed one woman and injured three other people is expected to receive a second life sentence in San Diego federal court Dec. 28. John Timothy Earnest, 22, pleaded guilty in parallel state and federal prosecutions for the April 27, 2019, shooting, as well…


Poway Synagogue Shooter Gets Second Life Sentence in San Diego Federal Court

SAN DIEGO—A young man who carried out a hate-motivated shooting at the Chabad of Poway that killed one woman and injured three other people was sentenced by a San Diego federal judge Dec. 28 to life in prison, plus 30 years. John Timothy Earnest, 22, pleaded guilty in parallel state and federal prosecutions for the April 27, 2019, shooting,…


Antisemitism in Canada at Levels Not Seen Since World War II: Former Justice Minister

Canada has been experiencing some of the worst outbreaks of antisemitism not seen since the end of the Second World War, says former justice minister Irwin Cotler, Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism. “What we’re witnessing has been a global escalation in antisemitism, but Canada has not been free from that…