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Death toll rises to 20 after gunmen attack Russia’s Dagestan

Death toll rises to 20 after gunmen attack Russia’s Dagestan

THE death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia's mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 20 after gunmen went on the rampage in coordinated attacks in two of the republic's most important cities. Gunmen with automatic weapons burst into an Orthodox church and a synagogue in the ancient city of Derbent on Sunday evening, setting fire to an icon at the church and killing a 66-year-old Orthodox priest, Nikolai Kotelnikov. In the city of Makhachkala, about 125 km (75 miles) north on the Caspian Sea shore, attackers shot at a traffic police post…
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Attack near Tunisia synagogue kills four

Attack near Tunisia synagogue kills four

AN attack near a synagogue in Tunisia killed two security officers and two visitors the government said amid an annual pilgrimage to the island of Djerba that draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel. The attack was staged by a guard at a naval installation in Djerba who used his weapon to shoot a colleague and seize his ammunition before heading towards the synagogue, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The attacker fired indiscriminately at security units located near the synagogue, killing two visitors and another security officer, as well as injuring five security officers and four visitors.…
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Israel’s Netanyahu pledges more action against Palestinian attackers

Israel’s Netanyahu pledges more action against Palestinian attackers

PRIME Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a stronger Israeli response in dealing with a spate of Palestinian attacks in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, as pressure swelled within his right-wing government to employ more severe tactics. His remarks came two days after a car-ramming attack in the Jerusalem outskirts killed three Israelis and two weeks after a lone Palestinian gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue, adding to rising anxiety in Israel over security. Tensions are also high in the West Bank, where Israeli forces have carried out hundreds of arrests in recent months during near-daily raids that have seen…
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Ukraine to build synagogue on site of Babyn Yar massacre

Ukraine to build synagogue on site of Babyn Yar massacre

UKRAINE will build a synagogue at the memorial site commemorating the victims of Babyn Yar, one of the biggest single massacres of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust, the head of the memorial site Max Yakover has told Reuters. "This should be a significant thing with a very deep meaning," he said. The synagogue is expected to open next year to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the killings, and would be Kyiv's first new synagogue built since Ukraine's independence in 1991. The Babyn Yar massacre marked the start of Ukraine's Holocaust in which a pre-war Jewish population of about 1.5…
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Synagogue, mosque and church to join under one roof in Berlin

Synagogue, mosque and church to join under one roof in Berlin

A group of Muslims, Jews and Christians have joined to lay the foundation stone for a centre that will house places of worship for each religion in a symbol of interfaith dialogue in the German capital. Days after protests in Berlin over the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza, and at a time when politicians are warning of rising anti-Semitism in Germany, the "House of One" offers a beacon of hope for dialogue, said its founders. "It is important that dramatic world conflicts can be discussed in the German capital and that people have a stage to highlight problems…
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