The Manchester synagogue terror attack – Today in Focus Extra
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:04.0 | This afternoon, an update on the synagogue attack in Manchester. |
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| 0:45.6 | Visit n-iote.org.uk forward slash NPQS to apply. Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is one of the most sacred and solemn days in the Jewish calendar. |
| 1:04.8 | It's a day to reflect on the past year and to ask God for his forgiveness. |
| 1:10.4 | At Heaton Park, Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in North Manchester this morning, |
| 1:15.0 | as in synagogues all around the world, Jews had gathered in prayer to atone and repent. |
| 1:21.0 | And then the very worst happened. |
| 1:23.6 | Something that they'd long been dreading, |
| 1:25.9 | a violence and deadly assault on their community, |
| 1:29.9 | what appears to be the worst anti-Semitic attack in Britain in living memory. |
| 1:44.3 | From the Guardian, get away, somebody's standing in time. Everybody else. He has a ball, go away. He's got a bubble. He's got a bubble. |
| 1:49.0 | From The Guardian, I'm Helen Pitt. |
| 1:50.7 | Today in Focus Extra. |
| 1:54.4 | On the ground in Manchester after the Young Kippur attack. |
| 2:06.3 | Josh Halliday, you're the Guardian's North of England editor and have been on the scene in Crumpsoll in North Manchester all day. |
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