Shamie, the man charged with attacking Jewish worshippers on the holiest of holidays, was at the time free on bail for rape charges. While the intelligentsia of the UK look the other way, the UK’s chief rabbi said the attack creates an “urgent need for national soul-searching.

At least two Jewish worshippers were killed and three others seriously injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in the English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.

Leading members of Australian Jewish communities are reeling after a fatal attack at a synagogue in the UK on the holy day of Yom Kippur.