When an armed man rammed his truck through the doors of Temple Israel on Thursday, Rabbi Benjamin Altshuler was across the street at the Shenandoah Country Club, in the middle of a meeting with the Greater West Bloomfield Faith and Community Alliance.

Authorities called the attack a "targeted act of violence against the Jewish community."

On a quiet Thursday morning in suburban Detroit, a pickup truck sat in the parking lot of a synagogue, as children and teachers inside went about their normal routines.

A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into a major synagogue in a Detroit suburb and was fatally shot by security.

An armed wannabe car bomber plowed a vehicle full of explosives into the preschool entrance of a synagogue in Michigan and barreled down a hallway before security opened fire, killing the suspect. The attack unfolded at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield just before 1 p.

Temple Israel synagogue attack suspect lived in Dearborn and was a naturalized US citizen. His family was killed in Lebanon strikes, Fox News reports.

A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township and was fatally shot by security, the AP has learned.