SYDNEY - Australian police have charged a man in connection with an alleged arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue with worshippers in the building, the latest in a series of incidents targeting the nation's Jewish community.

A man has been charged over an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue in an apparent escalation in antisemitic violence in Australia's second-most populous city.

A man has been charged after the doors of a Melbourne synagogue were set on fire on Friday night. Detectives from the Counter Terrorism Security Investigation Unit arrested Angelo Loras, 34, from the Sydney suburb of Toongabbie,