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Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker appeared on US breakfast television on Monday (Photo: CBS Mornings)
February 8, 2022, 4:37 pm
Texas rabbi who faced down hostage-taker to appeal for security funds
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker asked Congress for a doubling of security funding for nonprofits to £265m
By JTA
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue, Manhattan
January 24, 2022, 10:27 am
‘We have an actual gunman. This is not a joke’, Texas rabbi said in siege voicemail
The ‘unfaltering’ words were shared by a New York rabbi who received a call during last weekend’s hostage incident
By JTA and Michael Daventry
Akram
From the WebJanuary 21, 2022, 2:24 pm
JN PODCAST: Texas shul siege: How safe are we?
In this week’s Jewish News Podcast, editor Richard Ferrer is joined by CST chief executive Mark Gardner, JW3 chief executive Raymond Simonson and Imam Abdullah Antepli to analyse the impact and implications of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue siege in Texas.
January 18, 2022, 3:33 pm
OPINION: Texas shul siege compels us to confront uncomfortable truths
The CST's Dave Rich looks at the roots of conspiratorial antisemitism which may have motivated Faisal Malik Akram to fly to the US and take four Jews hostage in a synagogue
By Dave Rich
Malik Faisal Akram
January 18, 2022, 11:38 am
MI5 ‘dropped probe’ into Islamist terror links of Texas shul hostage-taker in 2020
Whitehall sources did not deny claims that British intelligence had conducted a probe into Malik Faisal Akram over extremist links as recently as the "second half of 2020."
By Lee Harpin
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker appeared on US breakfast television on Monday (Photo: CBS Mornings)
January 17, 2022, 4:32 pm
Texas shul rabbi recounts miraculous escape: ‘I threw a chair at my captor’
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker said he let his captor into the building and offered him tea because he looked like he needed shelter
By Michael Daventry
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