Beverly Geiger Bonnheim was 17 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed her synagogue in 1967. This weekend, at 75, she watched it burn ...
Nearly 60 years after the Beth Israel Congregation was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, an arson fire forced Jewish people in Jackson, Mississippi to relive the horror of that attack.
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The Jackson synagogue fire began centuries ago

The arson suspect spoke of ‘the synagogue of Satan,’ according to an affidavit. The phrase draws on a very old, hateful ...
Dr. Steven J. Hoffman, Ph.D., coordinator of the Historic Preservation Program at Southeast Missouri State University, discusses the significance to the region's history of the B'Nai Israel Synagogue ...
A suspect has been arrested and charged with arson in connection with a fire that tore through Beth Israel Congregation, the ...
Churches from around the area reached out to the congregation to offer their up their facilities for the congregants, while ...
A rabbi who served The Temple in Atlanta, bombed in 1958, reflects on arson at a Jackson, Miss. synagogue — and how history ...
The Reform congregation will begin a weekend-long celebration of its 175th anniversary with a Shabbat service, honoring its ...