Har Nof Synagogue Massacre (2014)

On Tuesday morning, Nov. 18, 2014, two Arab terrorists armed with guns and axes burst into a synagogue in the quiet Har Nof section of Jerusalem. They left four worshippers and a brave policeman dead and many wounded in their bloody wake.

The widows and orphans of the four rabbis slain in the Jerusalem synagogue massacre this Tuesday issued an emotional letter calling upon Jews everywhere to celebrate Shabbat in harmony. “With broken hearts, drenched in tears shed over the spilt blood ...,...

But there was another martyr in this attack, an Israeli policeman by the name of Zidan Saif.

We all ran out of the local grocery when we heard the gunshots early Tuesday morning. Two young Arab men were shooting and stabbing the men in the synagogue down the street—just because they were Jews. Our friendly Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof—home t...

“Our Talmudic scholar in Israel”—that’s how Bernie and Joan Levine of Kansas City referred to their son, according to friend and neighbor Rabbi Yitzchak “Itche” Itkin, co-director of Chabad on the Plaza in Missouri. The Levines’ son, Rabbi Kalman Ze’ev Le...

Bloodshed, conquest, genocide, terrorisms, pogroms and all the synonyms of hatred. The hands seem more popular than the voice.

Dear Friends, There are no words. Frightening images that conjure up memories of a dark past. The image of Jewish men, crowned in tallit and tefillin, lying dead in cold blood. Prayerbooks stained with Jewish blood… To our beloved brothers and sisters, th...

JERUSALEM—Five people were killed and at least six others wounded after two Palestinian terrorists armed with guns and axes burst into a synagogue in the Har Nof section of Jerusalem. The terrorists were killed in a gunfight with Israeli police. There was...