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Stephen Spencer Pittman was charged on Monday with maliciously damaging or destroying a building by means of fire or an explosive, according to an affidavit filed in US District Court in Mississippi.

The 165-year-old synagogue, the largest in Mississippi and only one in Jackson, was badly damaged in the fire on Saturday. Security footage showed a masked man using a gas can to pour a liquid on the floor of the lobby

  A federal court in Philadelphia has sentenced Donbon Farish, a 29-year-old Mississippi resident, to two years in prison followed by three years of probation for orchestrating an antisemitic harassment campaign targeting synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses in Pennsylvania. According to the June 2023 indictment, Farish conducted a series of threatening phone calls to Jewish institutions […]