El Paso

El Paso Jewish community is 'being targeted,' rabbi claims after two synagogues vandalized

B'nai Zion synagogue and Temple Mount Sinai were spraypainted with red swastikas entwined with Magen Davids.

 El Paso Police Department.
Downtown El Paso, Texas

Young victim of Texas Walmart massacre tells shooter, 'I want you dead'

A line of cocaine is seen being snorted through a rolled up dollar.

146 pounds of cocaine discovered in ice cream machine

Law enforcement members gather outside the Cielo Vista Mall after a shooting, in El Paso, Texas, US, February 15, 2023.

One shot dead, three wounded in Texas mall shooting


Texas Walmart massacre suspect pleads guilty to hate crimes

The suspect faces life in prison on federal charges and the death penalty on state charges.

El Paso Walmart accused mass shooter Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old male from Allen, Texas, accused of killing 22 and injuring 25, is arraigned, in El Paso, Texas, US, October 10, 2019.

El Paso, Texas, adopts IHRA definition of antisemitism

The IHRA classifies “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis,” among other actions, as antisemitic.

Downtown El Paso, Texas

Man who murdered Jewish lawyer wanted to kill 'Jewish Satan worshippers'

Joseph Angel Alvarez was arrested September 8 for the November 2020 murder of a lawyer, Georgette Kaufmann, and the aggravated assault of her husband Daniel in their El Paso, Texas, home.

A man waves an Israeli flag during a rally against antisemitism, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in May.

Death toll reaches 23 from last year's El Paso shooting

The death toll has climbed to 23 after the last victim left hospitalized from the rampage succumbed to his injuries over the weekend.

Flowers are seen at the site of a mass shooting where 20 people lost their lives at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 4, 2019

Man who built almost 27,000 crosses for mass shooting victims retires

Greg Zanis grew up Greek Orthodox and spent years as a Baptist, but he made memorials for people of all faiths for almost twenty years.

Greg Zanis places crosses bearing the names of the victims killed in a shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, U.S., May 21, 2018

White supremacy a major domestic terror threat, DHS says

This decision is a first for the department, which was created in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and has primarily focused thus far on foreign security threats.

Members of White Supremacy groups gather in West Allis, Wisconsin.

Mexico doesn't want El Paso shooter executed

Mexican president condemned the shooter's "abominable" crimes, but wants him extradited, not executed.

Mourners take part in a vigil near the border fence between Mexico and the U.S after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso U.S. in Ciudad Juarez

Mexico urges U.S. to designate El Paso shooting as terrorism

"We don't want this to happen again, we don't want these hate crimes."

Flowers are seen at the site of a mass shooting where 20 people lost their lives at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 4, 2019

August 12, 2019: Palestinians say West Bank not theirs?

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

In three shaken U.S. cities, Lady Gaga tries to channel 'fury into hope'

Beyond the 34 people who died and at least 65 who were wounded, the shootings likely had a psychological impact on young people of the three cities that endured the attacks.

Lady Gaga New Year 311

Jewish officials: 9/11-style response needed against white supremacists

Jewish security officials say it may not be enough in dealing with white supremacists, and hearken back to what happened after 9/11.

US President Donald Trump listens to reporter, Japan, June 29, 2019.