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Actvisit Lizzy Savetsky in campaign mode for Israel
July 13, 2024, 10:22 pm
Lizzy Savetzsky will not be silenced
Once a beauty queen, Lizzy is now an Israel activist building bridges with flowers across a sea of hate
By Brigit Grant
Jedidiah Murphy wears a skull cap that was a gift from one of his supporters, Rabbi Yehuda Eber, in the death row unit at Polunsky prison in Livingston, Texas, Oct. 26, 2019. (Yehuda Eber)
October 6, 2023, 2:12 pm
Advocates for Jew on death row say hopes are dimming
Jedidiah Murphy killed 79-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking in 2000 in Dallas County, Texas. He is due to die by lethal injection on Tuesday.
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
Gretchen Veling reads aloud from "Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation" at a board meeting for the Keller Independent School District in Keller, Texas this week (Photo: Screenshot)
August 24, 2022, 4:37 pm
Texas district reinstates Anne Frank’s diary on to school bookshelves
A graphic adaptation had been removed amid a push by authorities to purge so-called 'pornographic' material
By JTA
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
January 31, 2022, 2:03 pm
Man arrested in Manchester over Texas shul siege is released
The man was one of two arrested in Manchester as part of the local investigation.
Congregation Beth Israel
January 28, 2022, 9:58 am
Police release one man arrested over Texas synagogue stand-off
The other man held on Tuesday by officers probing Malik Faisal Akram’s attack remains in custody, Greater Manchester Police said.
January 26, 2022, 10:38 am
Two more men arrested in Manchester as part of Texas synagogue investigation
The latest arrest comes after two who were held in Birmingham and Manchester on January 20 as part of the same probe were released from custody with no further action.
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.
Rabbi Charlie Cytron- Walker is embraced by a congregant after the synagogue siege
January 19, 2022, 5:24 pm
Voice of the Jewish News: Whose synagogue will it be tomorrow?
What could have happened in the Texas shul hostage-taking is too awful to imagine, but too awful to ignore. It begs the question: How safe are our Jewish communities?
By Richard Ferrer
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
Police were stationed outside the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas (Photo: Twitter)
January 17, 2022, 11:33 am
UK arrests linked to Texas shul hostage-taking ‘underlines potential threats’ to Jewish community
Community Security Trust say Saturday's 10-hour stand-off at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville was 'an attack on a Jewish target by a British Islamist terrorist'
By Jewish News Reporter
January 16, 2022, 2:49 pm
‘I’m grateful to be alive’ – rabbi held hostage with three others in shul speaks out
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker was leading services in a Texas shul on Saturday morning when a man took him and three others hostage.
By JTA
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