List of attacks on Jewish institutions

See also: History of antisemitism

This is a list of violent attacks on Jewish institutions, such as synagogues, Jewish Community Centers, and the headquarters of Jewish organizations.

Attacks

Date	Target	Location	Perpetrator (motive)	Details
11 April 1956	Shafrir synagogue	Kfar Chabad, Israel	Palestinian fedayeen (Palestinian nationalism)	Shafrir synagogue shooting : As part of the Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency, three Palestinian militants who crossed into Israel from Egypt attacked the study hall of a synagogue while it was full of children and teenagers, killing 6 people, including 5 children.
25 March 1960	Congregation Beth Israel (Gadsden, Alabama)	Gadsden, Alabama, United States	Jerry Hunt (white supremacy and antisemitism)	Congregation Beth Israel attack : About 180 members were attending a Friday evening service to dedicate the new Zemurray Social Hall, and led by then-rabbi Saul Rubin and Rev. John Speaks and Dr. Franklin Denson of First Methodist Church, when 16-year-old neo-Nazi firebombed the synagogue. He then non-fatally shot two synagogue members who went outside to investigate. [1]
11 January 1969	Congregation Shaare Tikvah	Temple Hills, Maryland, United States	David Marness (possibly right-wing extremism linked to the Minutemen organization)	A bomb planted in the rear wall of Congregation Shaare Tikvah, Temple Hills, Maryland severely damaged the kitchen, social hall, and classrooms, with damages estimated at $200,000. There were no casualties or injuries. Police arrested David Maness in February and found 38 pounds of dynamite and literature from the right-wing Minutemen organization in his home. [2] [3]
8 October 1977	Shaare Zedek Synagogue	St. Louis, Missouri, United States	Joseph Paul Franklin (white supremacy and antisemitism)	Shaare Zedek Synagogue shooting: Joseph Paul Franklin fired upon congregants leaving a bar mitzvah, killing Gerald Gordon and wounding Steven Goldman and William Ash. [4]
11 March 1977	B'nai B'rith headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States	Hamaas Abdul Khaalis and 12 associated gunmen (Hanafi movement)	1977 Washington, D.C., attack and hostage taking : Twelve gunmen took 149 hostages at the B'nai B'rith headquarters and two other buildings in Washington, D.C. After a 39-hour standoff, the gunmen surrendered the hostages were released. [5] [6]
July 1980	Congregation Shaare Tikvah	Temple Hills, Maryland, United States		Vandals broke into the building and attempted to firebomb the bima and ark, but the synagogue's alarm system alerted the Prince George's County Police, who arrived within minutes, thwarting the attack and minimizing the damage.
29 August 1981	Stadttempel	Vienna, Austria	Marwan Hasan and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh (Palestinian nationalism)	1981 Vienna synagogue attack : Two Palestinian nationals entered the 155-year old Israelite Temple, posing as Jews, opening fire and threw grenades as attendees of a Bar Mitzvah. Two were killed and 18 were wounded. The assailants received life sentences. [7] [8]
18 September 1982	Great Synagogue of Brussels	Brussels, Belgium	Abu Nidal Organization (Palestinian nationalism)	On Rosh Hashanah, the synagogue was attacked by a man with a submachine gun, seriously wounding four people. The attack was attributed to the Abu Nidal Organization. [9] [10]
9 October 1982	Great Synagogue of Rome	Rome, Italy	5 Palestinian militants of the Abu Nidal Organization (Palestinian nationalism)	Great Synagogue of Rome attack : On Shabbat morning, as the families of the local Jewish community began leaving with their children from the back entrance to the synagogue, five elegantly dressed armed attackers walked calmly up to the back entrance of the synagogue and threw at least three hand grenades at the crowd, and afterwards sprayed the crowd with sub-machine gun fire. A 2-year-old toddler was killed and 37 civilians were injured. One of the assailants was identified as Osama Abdel al-Zomar, an alleged member of the Abu Nidal Organization. [11] [12] [13]
1983	Beth Shalom synagogue	Bloomington, Indiana, United States	The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA)	In the summer of 1983, the Beth Shalom synagogue in Bloomington, Indiana was damaged in an arson attack. Unknown assailants had started a fire at the base of the Torah ark, from which it spread to the sanctuary before being extinguished, leaving tens of thousands of dollars of damage. [14] The group responsible was the white supremacist group, The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), which was linked to the Aryan Brotherhood and perpetrated multiple terrorist attacks across America in the early 1980s. The FBI suppressed the group following a siege of its rural Arkansas compound in the spring of 1985. [15]
8 October 1985	Jewish quarter	Djerba, Tunisia	Tunisian security guard	[16] [17]
6 September 1986	Neve Shalom Synagogue	Istanbul, Turkey	Members of Abu Nidal	During Shabbat services gunmen killed 22 worshippers and wounded 6. [18]
1991	Crown Heights	Brooklyn, New York, United States	Riot	Crown Heights riot
1 March 1994	Van carrying Jewish students	New York City, New York, United States	Rashid Baz (Anti-US and antisemitic sentiment)	1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting: shooting attack on a van carrying Chabad-Lubavitch students crossing the bridge as part of an identifiably Jewish convoy of 20 vehicles carrying members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. [19]
20 March 1994	Temple Beth Israel	Eugene, Oregon	Chris Lord (white supremacy and antisemitism)	Chris Lord, an individual associated with the Volksfront and American Front, fired ten rounds with an assault rifle into the temple, damaging the interior. The attacks were prompted by a newspaper article about several members of Eugene's Jewish community, including a lesbian. Community organizations responded by standing vigil outside the synagogue during Passover services. Lord and an associate were caught and convicted, and Lord was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. [20]
18 June 1999	Beth Shalom, B’nai Israel, and Knesset Israel	Sacramento, California, United States	Benjamin Matthew and James Tyler Williams	Sacramento synagogue firebombings
10 August 1999	North Valley Jewish Community Center	Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States	Buford O. Furrow Jr. (White supremacy)	Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
8 October 2000	Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale	The Bronx, New York City, United States	Mazin Assi and Mohammed Alfaqih	2000 New York synagogue firebombing : On the morning of the eve of Yom Kippur, two Molotov cocktails were thrown, but did not ignite, at the door of the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale (CSAIR) in The Bronx in New York City. Two Palestinian men were arrested and found guilty for the attack. [21] [22] [23]
2000	Temple Beth El	Syracuse, New York, United States		Arson attack on Temple Beth El in Syracuse, New York. Hate crime by perpetrator who claimed Palestinian descent. [24]
2000	Beth El, Pittsburgh, and Congregation Ahavath Achim	Carnegie, Pennsylvania, United States	Richard Baumhammers (White supremacy)	White supremacist Richard Baumhammers shot out windows at Congregation Beth El, Pittsburgh, and Congregation Ahavath Achim in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. [21]
4 July 2002	Los Angeles International Airport	Los Angeles, California, United States	Hesham Mohamed Hadayet (Palestinian nationalism)	2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting : At 11:30am on 4 July 2002, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national, approached the El Al ticket counter inside the Tom Bradley International Terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport, pulled out two Glock pistols, and started shooting at the 90 passengers standing in the line. Hadayet killed Customer Service Agent Victoria Hen and 46-year-old bystander Yaakov Aminov before being killed himself. [25] [26]
25 October 2002	Temple Beth Israel	Eugene, Oregon	Members of Volksfront (white supremacy and antisemitism)	Jacob Laskey, his brother Gabriel Laskey, Gerald Poundstone, Jesse Baker, and one other man, all members of the Volksfront, drove to Beth Israel with the intent of intimidating the congregants. While a service with 80 members attending was taking place, the men threw rocks etched with Nazi swastikas through the synagogue's stained glass windows, then sped off. The men were caught, pleaded guilty, and were convicted. They served sentences ranging from a 6-month work release term and five years probation, to eleven years and three months in federal prison for the ringleader, Jacob Laskey. [27] [28]
6 May 2003	Valley Beth Shalom	Encino, California, United States	Farshid Tehrani (mental illness)	As part of a string of attacks against synagogues and other religious institutions in the San Fernando Valley, a Molotov cocktail thrown through window at Valley Beth Shalom synagogue in Encino, California. Farshid Tehrani was arrested for carrying our five arson attacks in 11 days between 26 April and 6 May. In October, he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial. [29] [30]
28 July 2006	Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle	Seattle, Washington, United States	Naveed Afzal Haq (Unknown)	Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
10 June 2009	United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	Washington, D.C., United States	James Wenneker von Brunn (Antisemitism, Holocaust denial)	United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting
11 January 2012		Rutherford and Paramus, New Jersey, United States	Anthony Graziano (Antisemitism)	Firebombing in Rutherford and Paramus, NJ. [31]
13 April 2014	Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom	Overland Park, Kansas, United States	Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (White supremacy)	Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting
18 November 2014	Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue	Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel	Uday Abu Jamal and Ghassan Abu Jamal (Palestinian nationalism)	2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack
14 February 2015	Great Synagogue (Copenhagen)	Copenhagen, Denmark	Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein (Islamic extremism)	2015 Copenhagen shootings
11 February 2016	Nazareth Restaurant	Columbus, Ohio, U.S.	Mohamed Barry (Islamic extremism)	2016 Ohio restaurant machete attack: Islamist attack on a Middle Eastern restaurant displaying an Israeli flag.
9 December 2017	Gothenburg Synagogue	Gothenburg, Sweden	Two Palestinians, one Syrian migrant, unidentified others (Islamic extremism, anti-Israel)	After marches protesting the United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, more than a dozen hurled firebombs at the Gothenburg Synagogue while teens from the local Jewish community were attending a party inside. No one was injured and there was no major damage to the property. On 25 June 2018, two Palestinians and one Syrian migrant were convicted for participation. Two were sentenced to two years in prison and the third was sentenced to 15 months. [32] [33]
27 October 2018	Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States	Robert Bowers (White supremacy)	Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
27 April 2019	Chabad of Poway	Poway, California, United States	John Earnest (White supremacy)	Poway synagogue shooting: [34]
28 July 2019	Young Israel of Greater Miami	Miami Beach, Florida, United States	Carlints St. Louis	A member of the synagogue in N. Miami Beach, FL, 68, was shot in the legs, as he was unlocking the front doors of the synagogue prior to a religious service. The suspect, Carlints St. Louis of Hallandale drove up in a black Chevrolet Impala, and shot him multiple times. [35]
9 October 2019	Halle Synagogue	Halle, Germany	Stephan Balliet (White supremacy)	Halle synagogue shooting
10 December 2019	JC Kosher Supermarket	Jersey City, New Jersey, United States	David Anderson and Francine Graham (Antisemitism, anti-police sentiment)	2019 Jersey City shooting: Shooting at a Kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey. [36] [37]
28 December 2019		Monsey, New York, United States	Grafton E. Thomas (Antisemitism)	Monsey Hanukkah stabbing: Five people were stabbed during Hanukkah festivities at the home of a rabbi (which was being used as a synagogue) in Monsey, New York. [38]
15 January 2022	Colleyville synagogue	Colleyville, Texas, United States	Malik Faisal Akram (Islamic extremism)	Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis: Four hostages taken at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. [39]
27 January 2023	Neve Yaakov synagogue	Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem	Khairi Alqam (Unknown)	2023 Neve Yaakov shooting
9 May 2023	El Ghriba Synagogue	Djerba, Tunisia	Wissam Khazri (Unknown)	2023 Djerba shooting
18 October 2023	Synagogue Brunnenstraße	Berlin, Germany	First attack: two unidentified assailants. Second (thwarted) attack: a 30-year-old man wearing a Palestinian scarf (Police stated that the man arrested was shouting inflammatory and anti-Israel slogans)	There were two attempted attacks on the Jewish Community Centre in Berlin's Mitte district; the first involved Molotov cocktails being thrown at the building, causing no injuries or damage, and the second involved a man wearing a Palestinian scarf and shouting anti-Israeli slogans, who was thwarted when he forced his way to the entrance despite a police cordon. [40]
1 November 2023	Jewish section of Vienna Central Cemetery	Vienna, Austria	Unknown	Unidentified vandals set a fire and sprayed swastikas on external walls overnight in the Jewish section of the Vienna Central Cemetery. The entrance lobby to a ceremonial hall was burned for the first time since the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom by the Nazis, but there were no injuries. The attack was condemned by Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer. [41] [42] [43]
23 November 2023	Mordechai Navi Synagogue	Yerevan, Armenia	Unknown	A vandal poured fuel on the synagogue's door, setting the building on fire. No serious damage was reported and no one was in the building at the time. Videos of the incident were shared by news outlets in Azerbaijan, against whom Armenia has fought several wars. The following day, Armenian authorities opened an investigation. [44]
5 April 2024	Oldenburg Synagogue	Oldenburg, Germany	Unknown	Arson attack on a synagogue in the city of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. German police have offered a cash reward for information about an arson attack. [45]
17 May 2024	Rouen Synagogue	Rouen, France	Unknown	A 29 year old Algerian man threw a bomb through the synagogue's window, lighting the building on fire. After throwing a knife at responding police, the man jumped off of the synagogue's roof and was shot by police. Damage inside the synagogue was significant. [46]
18 June 2024	Synagogue	Athens, Greece	Unknown	A Greek, Afghan, and Iranian were arrested by Greek officials for arson, gun possession, and robbery after two of the individuals rode near a synagogue and threw flammable material, causing fire. [47]
6 December 2024	Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Unknown	December 2024 Melbourne synagogue attack: An arson attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne by two masked perpetrators. One person was injured in the attack.

• 1950s synagogue bombings:
  • 1958 – March 16: An explosion caused severe damage to school wing of Temple Beth El in Miami, Florida. ^[48]
  • 1958 – March 16: Bombing of Jewish Community Center in Nashville, Tennessee at 8:07pm, claimed by segregationists of the Confederate Union. The front of the unoccupied building was damaged by dynamite, including broken windows and the front door, but the center reopened two days after the bombing. ^{[48] [49]}
  • 1958 – April 28: Bombing of Jewish Center, a synagogue in Jacksonville, Florida. ^[48]
  • 1958 – October 12: bombing of The Temple in Atlanta, Georgia by white supremacists. ^{[50] [48]}
  • 1958 – October 14, bomb damaged Temple Anshei Emeth, Peoria, Illinois. ^[48]
• 1967 – series of attacks by white separatists on Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi.
• 1968 – series of attacks by white separatists on Congregation Beth Israel in Meridian, Mississippi.
• 1970 – As part of the Rochester bombings, three synagogues are among nine buildings bombed by the Rochester crime family over a four week period in Rochester, New York ^{[51] [52]}

Failed attacks

A number of planned attacks were unsuccessful, either due to prevention by authorities or failed execution.

Disruption date	Target	Location	Perpetrator (motive)	Details
12 November 1957	Temple Beth El	Charlotte, North Carolina, United States	Unknown	6 sticks of dynamite with party burned 14-foot fuse was discovered outside the synagogue [53]
9 February 1958	Temple Emanuel	Gastonia, North Carolina, United States	Unknown	Thirty sticks of dynamite discovered by police in a suitcase outside the synagogue [53] [48]
April 2001	United States Holocaust Museum, the New England Holocaust Memorial, Anti-Defamation League offices, well-known American Jews, including Steven Spielberg; and black leaders, including Rev. Jesse Jackson	Northeastern United States	Leo Felton from the White Order of Thule and Erica Chase of the Creativity Movement (white supremacy, antisemitism)	2002 white supremacist terror plot : Felton, the mixed-race son of a civil rights activist, and his girlfriend Chase planned to build a fertilizer bomb like one used in the Oklahoma City bombing and attack landmarks associated with American Jews and African Americans to incite a racial holy war. Felton and Chase were convicted for the plot on 27 July 2002. Felton received 21 years and 10 months in prison. [54] [55]
July 2005	Synagogues, Israeli consulate, U.S. military facilities	Southern California	Kevin James, Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson, Hammad Riaz Samana (Islamic extremism)	2005 Los Angeles bomb plot : A group of ex-convicts formed the radical Islamic group Jam’iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh from inside prison. The group, led by James, planned to rob gas stations in southern California and attack "enemies of Islam." [56] [57]
17 September 2008	Stewart Air National Guard Base, Riverdale Temple, Riverdale Jewish Center	Riverdale, New York	James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, Laguerre Payen (antisemitism, anti-Americanism)	Bronx terrorism plot : Cromitie, Williams, Williams, and Payen planned to bomb the Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center. They were also to fire Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles at military planes at Stewart Air National Guard Base. [58] [59]
21 March 2009	Ida Crown Jewish Academy	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Mohammed Alkaramla (anti-Israel)	See also: Antisemitic incidents during the Gaza War (2008–2009) During the 2008-2009 Gaza war, 25-year-old Mohammed Alkaramla, a native of Jordan, mailed a letter threatening to blow up a Jewish high school if Israel didn't withdraw troops from Gaza. In July 2010, Alkaramla was found guilty of one count of making threats against the school. He was sentenced to 25 months in prison in November 2010. [60] [61]
19 November 2019	Unidentified synagogue	New York City, New York, United States	Matthew Mahler and Christopher Brown	Mahler and Brown were arrested at Penn Station after posting on social media that they wanted to "shoot up a synagogue and die." Brown was arrested with an illegal firearm, a large hunting knife, ammunition, and a Nazi armband. The online threat was first noted by the Community Security Service, which alerted authorities. [62] [63] Jamil Hakime, who drove Mahler and Brown to purchase the gun pled guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in July 2023. [64]
February 2021	Maghain Aboth Synagogue	Singapore	Amirull Ali	Maghain Aboth Synagogue attack plot: Amirull Ali, a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, planned to stab three members of the Maghain Aboth Synagogue in retaliation for the role of Israel and Jews in the Israel–Palestine conflict. Ali also planned to travel to Gaza to join Hamas' military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The plot was foiled when Ali was arrested by the Internal Security Department of Singapore in February 2021. [65] [66]
4 November 2022	Unspecified	Unspecified	Omar Alkattoul (antisemitism, homophobia)	On November 1, 2022, Omar Alkattoul from Sayreville, New Jersey, used social media to send a manifesto with a threat to attack a synagogue based on his hatred of Jews. He admitted he had researched how to obtain a gun and about mass shootings. Alkattoul pleaded guilty to one count of transmitting a threat and was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison on 14 November 2023. [67] [68]
16 June 2023	Congregation Shaarey Zedek	East Lansing, Michigan	Seann Patrick Pietila (neo-Nazi, antisemitism)	20-year-old Seann Patrick Pietila was arrested by the FBI for threatening to conduct a mass killing at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in East Lansing. A search at his home uncovered weapons, ammunition, Nazi paraphernalia, and military manuals. Pietila pled guilty in November and was sentenced to a year and one day in federal prison and ordered to pay $160,000 in restitution in March 2024. [69] [70] [71]

• 2011 – 2011 Manhattan terrorism plot. Failed plan by radical Muslims to bomb a synagogue.
• 2019 – Failed plot to bomb the Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado and poison its members. The would-be perpetrator pled guilty in 2020. ^[72]

See also

• List of antisemitic incidents in the United States
• Attacks against synagogues in Israel

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