Yom Kippur synagogue attacker goes on trial in Germany

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — A German man is going on trial for a Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue that is considered one of the worst anti-Semitic assaults in the country’s post-war history. The trial in Magdeburg, which opens Tuesday, comes at a time when anti-Semitic crimes have reached their highest level since Germany started tracking such crimes in 2001, amid an overall increase in right-wing extremist criminality. Prosecutors say Stephan Balliet tried and failed to get into the s