A suspect has been arrested over a ‘terrorist act’ outside a synagogue in the south of France. The explosion just outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the seaside resort of La Grande-Motte ...

Ben Haïm said the walls and furniture of the synagogue had been left blackened by the fire. France has the third largest Jewish population in the world, after Israel and the United States.

Visiting Rabbi Henry Hamra led prayers at the Faranj synagogue in Damascus's Old City. His father Yusuf Hamra was reportedly the last rabbi to leave Syria, one of thousands of members of the ...