The suspect of the case, 38-year-old Cody Balmer, told Pennsylvania State Police officers that he would have beaten Shapiro with a hammer if he had found him inside.
The alleged assailant's charges will include terrorism, attempted murder, and arson.
The suspect and police exchanged gunfire after he walked into the hallway holding a female staff member at gunpoint with her hands bound.
The Democratic Party must now decide whether to continue paying it through strategic missteps and moral ambiguity about virulently anti-Israel and antisemitic factions of its party.
The missed opportunity, a Jewish VP candidate that might have changed the game.
The synagogue, which is one of the oldest in the US, was subjected to three separate incidents over a few days.
Rep. Josh Shapiro, a proud observant Jew and Zionist, was in the race to become Kamala Harris's running mate - a position he lost to Tim Walz.
American Jews must understand that this gathering attack is aimed at them.
“He’s someone who has routinely peddled antisemitic tropes like this," Shapiro said.
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