According to local legend, throwing implements at the Brandberge sports grounds in Halle fly farther there than anywhere else ...

A heavily armed assailant tried to force his way into a synagogue Wednesday in eastern Germany on Yom Kippur ... door of the synagogue in the city of Halle but did not get in as 70 to 80 people ...

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A member of Halle’s Jewish community looks at lit candles outside the synagogue in Halle, Germany, on October 11, 2019. (Reuters / Hannibal Hanschke) By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...

What many in Halle's Jewish community - and others besides - want to know is why there was no police guard to protect them: a situation Josef Schuster, president of Germany's Central Council of ...

A German court has jailed a far-right gunman for life for his deadly attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle last year ... It nearly became Germany's worst anti-Semitic atrocity ...

On Yom Kippur, an armed assailant tried to enter a synagogue in Halle, Germany and massacre its congregants - gunning down people on the street after he failed to access the 51 people praying inside.