In the wake of the worst attack on synagogues in the United States in at least two decades, federal investigators are feverishly tracking leads in last week’s coordinated firebombings of three of the five temples in Sacramento, Calif.
Meanwhile, an unprecedented outpouring of support continues to stream into the California state capital’s Jewish community from local citizens, national politicians and horrified American Jewish organizations, all vowing to help rebuild the severely damaged buildings torched in a pre-dawn raid last Friday by still unknown persons.

Leo Melamed says his life is like a movie — “Casablanca,” he suggested, with its harrowing escapes, hard-won transit permits and pervasive mood of threat. But it’s an updated “Casablanca,” filled with the high-tech tools of Melamed’s trade and the trappings of wealth he has acquired since his days on the run.