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Across the country, most public celebrations of Hanukkah, the eight-night Jewish holiday that begins Thursday at sundown, appear to be going ahead without disruption.

On the first night of traditional menorah lightings, some communities and Jewish families are grappling with questions of meaning and safety.

Almost immediately after a jury recommended the death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, statements began to pour in from family members of victims and survivors, Jewish leaders, politicians and others. “Although we will never attain closure from the loss of our beloved Rose Mallinger, we now feel a

  At approximately 3 a.m. on Sunday, January 29, a man in a ski mask approached the entrance of Temple Ner Tamid, a reform synagogue in Bloomfield, NJ. Security footage shows the suspect igniting a “Molotov cocktail,” at the front door of the synagogue before fleeing the property.

Secure Community Network, credited with thwarting threat to synagogues in New York, says University of Arizona ignored warnings before attacker killed professor he thought Jewish

The group coordinates security for Jewish organizations across the country. Last week, it alerted authorities in New York City to an online post by someone who said he would “shoot up a synagogue.”

Explicitly antisemitic threats like “death to all Jews” should have been a red flag for the campus police, a Jewish security expert said.

Jewish community leaders say there are no known reports of antisemitism in Monterey or Santa Cruz County, but Central Coast synagogues still plan to take action.

Currently being trialed, device enables command center to notify congregants of possible threat, without worshipers touching electronics generally forbidden on Shabbat