Other attacks on Jews, Jewish facilities in U.S.

Chicago, Oct. 13, 2000: Political and religious leaders appealed for calm after a rabbi was shot at and Palestinian-American teenagers were charged in a slingshot attack on Jewish pedestrians.

Suburban Pittsburgh, April 28, 2000: Richard Scott Baumhammers, an attorney with far-right views and a history of mental illness, shot and killed his Jewish next-door neighbor, Anita Gordon, and set her house afire. He then set out by car on a two-county series of racist violence, shooting up two synagogues, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian grocery and a karate club, killing four more people: an African American and three immigrants from India, China and Vietnam. Another Indian immigrant was critically injured.

Chicago, July 4, 1999: Six Jews were shot — none fatally — while walking home from synagogue on a Friday night. Over the next two days the shooter, 21-year-old Benjamin Smith, an activist in the far-right World Church of the Creator, drove through two states, shooting at blacks and Asians. When it was over, there were two dead — one black, one Korean American — and seven wounded, including the six Jews. Smith shot himself after police cornered him in southern Illinois.

Northern California, summer 1999: Two brothers described as white supremacists set fires that severely damaged three synagogues and an abortion clinic during a wave of terror in the summer of 1999. The names of several prominent Redding and Sacramento Jews also were found on the "hit list" in the brothers' possession. Benjamin Matthew Williams, 33, and James Tyler Williams, 31, entered the pleas as part of a deal with prosecutors that clears the way for a trial next year on charges that the pair murdered a gay couple.

Los Angeles, Aug. 10, 1999: White supremacist Buford O. Furrow, formerly of Lacey, Thurston County, killed a postal worker and wounded five people at a Jewish community center. Furrow was sentenced to life in prison.