Texas hostages
A view of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 17, 2022. (Emil Lippe/Getty Images)
February 22, 2022, 3:16 pm
Antisemitic flyers distributed in Colleyville, site of recent hostage crisis
The flyers accuse Jews of a "COVID agenda."
By Shira Hanau
January 24, 2022, 11:27 am
Chronicle poll results: Security after Colleyville
We asked our readers if they were more concerned with their security after the Colleyville hostage crisis. Here's what they said.
In a Friday night sermon on Jan. 21, 2022, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Manhattan's Central Synagogue spoke about her experience being contacted by the gunman who took Jews hostage at a synagogue in Texas a week earlier. (Screenshot)
January 22, 2022, 10:56 pm
In ‘Captives of Hope’ sermon, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl details call with Texas gunman
"If you are a Jew in America and you are not feeling unsettled," Buchdahl said, "then you are not paying attention."
By Philissa Cramer
Congregation Beth Israel hostage-taker, identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram (Courtesy via The Times of Israel)
January 20, 2022, 3:03 pm
In final call, Texas synagogue hostage-taker ranted about ‘f*cking Jews,’ US wars
In recording of last phone call during siege, Malik Akram tells his brother he wants to ‘go down as a martyr’ and that he’s ‘opening doors’ for other jihadists
By Agencies and TOI staff
The attack on a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, will be on the minds of congregants across the country this Saturday as they gather for services. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
January 20, 2022, 12:41 pm
American Jews prepare for a Shabbat in the shadow of Colleyville
Across the country and world, rabbis and those who help them lead their synagogues are weighing a host of concerns, including, is their security strong enough?
By Asaf Shalev
Rock left outside the Tree of Life building on Oct. 27, 2020. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting is discussed in Norman Finkelstein's book (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
January 18, 2022, 4:22 pm
The Colleyville context
"For dozens of non-Jews to rush across the country with the intent to save Jewish lives, all paid for by the U.S. government, without a hint of complaint from any quarter is, from a Jewish perspective, remarkable."
By Rabbi Danny Schiff
A Police vehicle sits outside of the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, some 25 miles west of Dallas, Jan. 16, 2022. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images)
January 17, 2022, 2:46 pm
‘We were terrified’: Texas rabbi threw a chair at synagogue gunman to help escape
The rabbi credited the security training he has received, including from Jewish community security consultants, for helping him to manage the crisis.
By Ron Kampeas
Congregation Beth Israel hostage-taker, identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram (Courtesy via The Times of Israel)
January 17, 2022, 9:08 am
With info scarce, US authorities, Jewish groups differ on Texas attacker’s motives
FBI declares gunman ‘singularly focused,’ Biden says he had multiple agendas; Reform movement sure targeting of synagogue was antisemitism, but synagogue itself says it was random
By Jacob Magid
SWAT team members deploy near Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue during a hostage situation in Colleyville, Texas, January 15, 2022; Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP; Congregation Beth Israel)
January 16, 2022, 11:08 am
‘Calm, collected’ synagogue rabbi wowed FBI through 10-hour Texas hostage crisis
Dallas police chaplain says law enforcement impressed by Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s composure during Colleyville attack, notes how faith leaders immediately sprang into action
By Jacob Magid
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas.
January 16, 2022, 8:25 am
‘A mensch’: Meet Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, freed after hostage crisis
Even the man who attacked the synagogue praised him, saying on the live-streamed audio that the rabbi had welcomed him into the building when he knocked on the door asking whether the synagogue was a shelter.
By Andrew Lapin
SWAT team members deploy near the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 15, 2022. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images)
January 15, 2022, 11:10 pm
All Texas synagogue hostages ‘out alive and safe’ after harrowing 12-hour standoff
The suspect is reportedly dead.
By Ron Kampeas and Andrew Lapin
This Federal Bureau of Investigation handout image shows undated images of a woman identified as Aafia Siddiqui (FBI/Getty Images)
January 15, 2022, 11:03 pm
Who is Aafia Siddiqui, the prisoner whom the Colleyville synagogue hostage-taker wanted to free?
She is serving an 86-year sentence at Federal Medical Center-Carswell prison in Fort Worth. It is the only federal medical facility for women in the United States.
By Asaf Shalev
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