Colleyville synagogue

Two Jews shot while leaving Los Angeles synagogue, suspect detained

The suspect reportedly has a history of animus towards the Jewish community, according to the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN
A Los Angeles police car sits outside the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, September 17, 2001
New Jersey police officers stand guard in front of the United Synagogue of Hoboken in New Jersey, U.S., November 4, 2022

US Jewish organizations are investing heavily in security -JNFA CEO

One year after the Colleyville hostage-taking, Jewish organizations are accelerating the building of security measures, while antisemitism rises.

|ByOMRI NAHMIAS
CONGREGATION BETH Israel in Colleyville, Texas, the site of the January 15, 2022, hostage crisis. ‘What I have discovered is that an equal and opposite force of love for the Jewish people exists in our world,’ says the writer.

January 15: Remembering the Colleyville, Texas synagogue hostage crisis - opinion

I urge you this Sabbath to heed the lessons of January 15 and the Holocaust that if Jews have survived the worst of humanity, they are also somehow capable of demonstrating the best of humanity.

|ByANNA SALTON EISEN
Then US-president elect Donald Trump and musician Kanye West pose for media at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, US, December 13, 2016.

The top ten worst antisemitic incidents of 2022 - SWC

In a year filled with antisemitic rhetoric and attacks, the Shimon Wiesenthal Center ranked their ten most prominent antisemitic incidents of 2022.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Officials are afraid to say 'antisemitism' when Jews are targeted - analysis

When Iran is angry over offensive cartoons in Europe, it attacks the memory of the Shoah and Jews. When Pakistan is angry it attacks Jews. When Al-Qaeda is angry it targets Jews.

JANUARY 16, 2022BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
The ‘Netanyahu = Hitler’ sign at an anti-Israel demonstration in London on June 12.

'I am grateful to be alive,' says Colleyville rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker

Meet the rabbi who was one of four people taken hostage on Saturday in Colleyville, Texas • “I bonded with him,” and "really like him," the hostage-taker said.

JANUARY 16, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, where four hostages were held.

WJC stands in solidarity with Colleyville Jewish community

Amb. Ronald S. Lauder: “Attack on Congregation Beth Israel is an attack on all of us”

JANUARY 16, 2022ByALAN ROSENBAUM
The US Capitol is seen at sunrise on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, January 6, 2022.

Biden calls Texas synagogue hostage situation 'act of terror'

US President Joe Biden, as well as other elected officials both in the US and in Israel, reacted on Sunday morning to the release of four hostages held at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, TX.

JANUARY 15, 2022ByOMRI NAHMIAS, REUTERS
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden gestures as he delivers remarks at the White House in July on the administration’s drawdown efforts in Afghanistan.

Texas synagogue hostages freed, British gunman dead

After 11-hour standoff, three remaining hostages, including Congregation Beth Israel's Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, were released.

JANUARY 15, 2022ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Law enforcement vehicles are seen in the area where a man has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue during services that were being streamed live, in Colleyville, Texas, US, January 15, 2022.