List of attacks on Jewish institutions in the United States

This is a list of violent attacks and failed attack plots targeting Jewish institutions in the United States.

• 1957 - November 11: A bomb at Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Alabama was discovered before it exploded.[1]
• 1958 - February 9: Thirty sticks of dynamite discovered by police in suitcase at Temple Emanuel in Gastonia, North Carolina.[1]
• 1958 - March 16: An explosion caused severe damage to school wing of Temple Beth El in Miami, Florida.[1]
• 1958 - March 16: Bombing of Jewish Community Center in Nashville, Tennessee at 8:07pm, claimed by segregationists of the Confederate Union. The front of the unoccupied building was damaged by dynamite, including broken windows and the front door, but the center reopened two days after the bombing.[1][2]
• 1958 - April 28: Bombing of Jewish Center, a synagogue in Jacksonville, Florida.[1]
• 1958 - April 28: A suitcase containing more than 50 sticks of dynamite failed to explode at Temple Beth El in Birmingham, Alabama when overnight rain soaked the explosives. [1]
• 1958 - October 12: bombing of The Temple in Atlanta, Georgia by white supremacists.[3][1]
• 1958 - October 14, bomb damaged Temple Anshei Emeth, Peoria, Illinois.[1]
• 1960 - Shooting and firebombing attack on Congregation Beth Israel in Gadsden, Alabama.
• 1967 - series of attacks by white separatists on Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi.
• 1968 - series of attacks by white separatists on Congregation Beth Israel in Meridian, Mississippi.
• 1977 - Shaare Zedek Synagogue (University City, Missouri). Synagogue shooting, 1 dead, 2 seriously injured.
• 1977 - An attack and hostage-taking at B'nai B'rith headquarters in Washington, D.C.
• 1991 - Crown Heights riot
• 1994 - 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting shooting attack on a van carrying Chabad-Lubavitch students crossing the bridge as part of an identifiably Jewish convoy of 20 vehicles carrying members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.[4]
• 1994 - attacks on Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon by white separatists
• 1999 - arson attacks on three Jewish congregations in Sacramento, California, including B'nai Israel
• 1999 - Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting by a white supremacist
• 2000 - White supremacist Richard Baumhammers shoots out windows at Congregation Beth El, Pittsburgh, and Congregation Ahavath Achim in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.[5]
• 2000 - Arson attack on Temple Beth El in Syracuse, New York. Hate crime by perpetrator who claimed Palestinian descent.[6]
• 2000 - Firebombing of Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale, New York by group of Palestinian-American men.[5]
• 2002 - 2002 white supremacist terror plot
• 2002 - 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting - attack on El Al, the airline of Israel.
• 2002 - Another attack on Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, Oregon by white separatists
• 2003 - Molotov cocktail thrown through window at Valley Beth Shalom synagogue in Encino, California
• 2005 - 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot. Failed plan by Muslims to bomb a synagogue.
• 2006 - 2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting committed by Naveed Afzal Haq
• 2009 - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting
• 2009 - Bronx terrorism plot to bomb the Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center
• 2011 - 2011 Manhattan terrorism plot. Failed plan by Muslims to bomb a synagogue.
• 2014 - Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting by a Neo-Nazi
• 2016 - 2016 Ohio restaurant machete attack. Islamist attack on a Middle Eastern restaurant displaying an Israeli flag.
• 2018 - Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• 2018 - Los Angeles synagogue attack[7]
• 2019 - Shooting at Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California[8]
• 2019 - Failed plot to bomb the Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado and poison its members. The would-be perpetrator pled guilty in 2020.[9]
• 2019 - 2019 Jersey City shooting. Shooting at a Kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey[10][11]
• 2019 - 2019 Monsey Hanukkah stabbing. Five people were stabbed during Hanukkah festivities at the home of a rabbi (which was being used as a synagogue) in Monsey, New York.[12]

See also

• List of synagogue shootings

References

1. Kellman, George. "ANTI-JEWISH AGITATION." The American Jewish Year Book 60 (1959): 44-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23602919.
2. Toby, Jackson (May 1958). "Bombing in Nashville:A Jewish Center and the Desegregation Struggle". Commentary.
3. Webb, Clive (June 22, 2009). "Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause". Southern Spaces. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
4. Sexton, Joe (March 2, 1994). "4 Hasidic Youths Hurt in Brooklyn Bridge Shooting". New York Times. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
5. Green, David (October 28, 2018). "From Lynchings to Mass Shootings: The History of Deadly Attacks on Jews in America". Haaretz. Retrieved November 20, 2018.
6. "Arab convicted of hate crimes in temple arson". St. Catharines Standard. AP. November 25, 2003. ProQuest 349554168.
7. Rosen, Armin (November 28, 2018). "We May Never Know the Motivations of the Man Who Shouted Anti-Semitic Slurs Before Trying to Kill Jews". Tablet. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
8. Davis, Kristina; Parvini, Sarah (April 27, 2019). "Multiple people shot in attack on Poway synagogue; police detain man for questioning". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
9. Waller, Allyson (October 15, 2020). "White Supremacist Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Bomb Colorado Synagogue". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
10. https://www.thejc.com/news/us-news/six-people-confirmed-dead-as-jersey-city-shooting-targets-kosher-supermarket-1.494201
11. https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Police-officer-shot-in-New-Jersey-in-active-shooting-situation-report-610518
12. "Synagogue stabbings: five hurt in Monsey attack, say reports". The Guardian. December 28, 2019. Retrieved December 28, 2019.