synagogue shooting

The FBI said it believes this month’s attack on a metro-Detroit synagogue was a terrorist attack inspired by the Lebanese political party and militant group Hezbollah.

Jewish state officials in Michigan are calling for stronger laws against terroristic threatening and better coordination against political and religious extremism.

The suspect who attacked a synagogue in Michigan lost family members in an Israeli strike in Lebanon on March 5. Relatives and neighbors in his hometown share their views on his actions.

A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a West Bloomfield synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building.

Elyssa Schmier is a congregant of the Temple Israel synagogue and also serves at the Michigan Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League. She said her family has been worshipping at Temple Israel for four generations.

Police say the person who rammed a vehicle through the doors of a synagogue outside Detroit is dead after an exchange of gunfire. A synagogue security guard was injured.

National news about violence is squeezing out news about local elections, with just a week before Michiganders go to the polls. But a top national…