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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

REPORT: A Car Has Exploded In Front Of A French Synagogue

REPORT: A Car Has Exploded In Front Of A French Synagogue

French media outlet Metronews reports that there's been a car explosion in front of a synagogue in Sarcelles, a city near Paris where two were two gunmen attacked the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo just hours earlier.
It is not clear whether the two events are connected. The Paris version of Metro reports that this event was an incident unrelated with the attack at the magazine.
The car was parked in front of a synagogue, and reportedly exploded at about 2.30 p.m. local time (1.30 p.m. GMT).


At the time of writing, the shooter who attacked the newspaper office in central Paris are still at large in the French capital's suburbs.
Here is a map of the two events:
Sarcelles MapGoogle Maps

The attack at Charlie Hebdo, a well known irreverent magazine which has previously been the target of attacks, up to 12 people dead and several more injured. 
The paper's editor-in-chief and three leading cartoonists are reportedly among the dead. 

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

RELIGION OF PEACE: FOUR KILLED IN JERUSALEM SYNAGOGUE ATTACK


From the Guardian:
Four Israelis were killed and eight more wounded in a frenzied assault by two Palestinian men on Jewish worshippers praying at a Jerusalem synagogue in the most lethal incident in the city in years. 
The two assailants who launched their attack with meat cleavers and a gun during early morning prayers were then killed by police officers in the ensuing gun battle at the scene of the attack. 
The deaths occurred as the two men – identified by family members as cousins Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal from the East Jerusalem district of Jabal Mukaber – burst into the Bnei Torah synagogue in Har Nof, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of West Jerusalem. 
Three of the victims held dual US-Israeli citizenship, and one was a British-Israeli citizen – 68-year-old Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, who emigrated to Israel from the UK in 1993. 
The three US citizens were 59-year-old Rabbi Moshe Twersky – the head of an English speaking religious college – Aryeh Kopinsky, 43, and Kalman Zeev Levine, 55. The grandson of one of the founders of the Modern Orthodox movement, Twersky lived close to the scene of the attack in Har Nof.