The enormous door at the entrance to the main synagogue in the central German city of Halle that withstood the neo-Nazi gunman who attempted to massacre worshipers on Yom Kippur this year is to be turned into a symbolic art object, the head of the Jewish community announced on Friday.
More than 50 people were attending services on Oct. 9 to mark Judaism’s holiest day when the gunman — Stephan Balliet — tried to break into the building, in an attack that was livestreamed on the internet.
Foiled by the heavy security door to the synagogue, Balliet subsequently murdered a 40-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man who were in the vicinity of the building.

A new report says the Israeli Mossad helped foil several terror attacks in Denmark, Keshet 12 reported.
Nir Dvori, the site’s army and security journalist, on Saturday night reported that the ones helping Danish police and intelligence services foil a long list of terror attacks was the Israeli Mossad.
The terror attacks were planned out, but were foiled at the last moment by the Mossad, which was aiding its counterparts to end the threat of terror in Europe.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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President Trump sits down with the president of Paraguay just hours after the Democrat-led House Judiciary committee completed its impeachment markup, sending the articles to the House floor.
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The Beverly Hills Police Department is investigating a crime that took place at Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills overnight Friday, according to Beverly Hills Police Department Lt. Robert Maycott, according to The Jewish Journal.
Nessah Synagogue, one of the largest Iranian Jewish synagogues in Beverly Hills, was targeted in an apparent break-in.
Windows and doors were broken, nine sifrei Torah were destroyed, as well as siddurim, according to an an Israeli media report.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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Dozens of protesters gathered in Israel’s religious town of Bnei Brak on Shabbos to demonstrate against newly offered bus services available on Shabbos.
Protesters attempted to block the main Jabotinsky Road connecting the cities of Ramat Gan and Petah Tikva, and some clashed with police, according to The Times of Israel.
The police said that 16 demonstrators were arrested for public disorder and assaulting policemen during protests Friday and Shabbos.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday recommended that former deputy Trump campaign chairman Rick Gates serve no prison time, citing his “extraordinary assistance” in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, according to a new court filing.
Prosecutors did not oppose Gates’s request for probation, which could be conditioned on what the government said is his continuing cooperation in several matters that it did not make public.
Gates and his longtime boss, Paul Manafort, were the first individuals publicly charged by Mueller in October 2017 as the special counsel sought to learn whether any Americans conspired with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. Manafort served as one of Donald Trump’s campaign chairmen in the 2016 race.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wants his death sentence overturned, claiming he didn’t receive a fair trial.
A federal court of appeals in Boston on Thursday heard from Tsarnaev’s lawyers, who claim their client couldn’t have received an impartial trial in a city still reeling from the 2013 attack, which killed three people and injured more than 260.
“This case should not have been tried in Boston,” the lawyers wrote in their legal brief.
“Tsarnaev admitted heinous crimes, but even so —perhaps especially so — this trial demanded scrupulous adherence to the requirements of the Constitution and federal law. Again and again this trial fell short.”

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Famed Breslov Mashpia Rav Mota Frank shares a message of Inspiration, Strength & Unity in the aftermath of the Horrific Massacre in Jersey City which specifically targeted Jews.
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