Tag: Colleyville
A year after Colleyville, the Jewish community is rethinking security
When Malik Faisal Akram, a British-Pakistani terrorist, took four congregants hostage at a small-town Texas synagogue at this time last year, it became immediately clear that the event would have deep and lasting ramifications...
Texas synagogue in Colleyville reopens three months after hostage crisis
Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, has reopened nearly three months after an armed assailant took four members hostage at the synagogue, NBC reported.
The Reform synagogue’s services were streaming online from various locations while the building was...
Police, FBI investigate anti-Semitic fliers found in plastic bags in Colleyville
The Federal Bureau of Investigations and the police department in Colleyville, Texas, are investigating anti-Semitic fliers found on Saturday morning just weeks after an armed assailant held a rabbi and three congregants hostage at...
NGO links social-media campaign to hostage crisis at Texas synagogue
Anti-Semitism experts have linked a coordinated social-media campaign for jailed Pakistani terrorist Aafia Siddiqui to the hostage crisis in Colleyville, Texas, on Jan. 15.
During Shabbat services and into the evening, 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram held four...
The unspoken truths behind the Texas synagogue attack
The attack on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, where the rabbi and three other Jews were taken hostage until they managed to escape unharmed, was shocking enough.
What has subsequently emerged, however, is even...
The agony and the pride of being a Jew in America
To be a Jew today means your life will be defined by collective moments of agony and of pride. Jewish people may be admired by some for our resilience, our dignity, our courage and...
Texas terrorist in final phone call: ‘F***ing Jews … I’ve come to die’
The British terrorist who held four Jews hostage at gunpoint on Saturday at a Texas synagogue told his brother that he had been planning the event for two years and that he came to America to “go down...
Together against hate
We all anxiously followed the unfolding on Saturday of the tragic hostage event at the Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. Unfortunately, this was not the first incident to occur during a Shabbat prayer...
‘It didn’t look good’: Texas rabbi describes escape from gunman in synagogue hostage situation
When Malik Faisal Akram knocked on the glass doors at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday morning, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker thought he looked like he could use a little shelter and let...