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Chicago center trained rabbi, other hostages at Texas synagogue who escaped safely

Secure Community Network, a nonprofit based in River North, ‘saved our lives,’ one hostage said. It works with the FBI and the Homeland Security Department to protect Jewish facilities across the country.

Chicago Sun-Times

Rabbi held hostage in Texas synagogue tells Congress that houses of worship need more security funds

WASHINGTON — The Colleyville rabbi held hostage with three congregants by a man demanding release of an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist urged Congress on Tuesday to provide more security funds for houses of worship.

Tribune News Service

Rabbi held hostage in Texas synagogue urges more security funds for houses of worship

WASHINGTON — The Colleyville, Texas, rabbi held hostage with three congregants by a man demanding release of a terrorist linked to al-Qaida urged Congress on Tuesday to provide more security funds for houses of worship.

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Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff evacuated from DC school over bomb threat – as it happened

Second gentleman escorted by security from Dunbar high school in Washington

The Guardian - US

Texas synagogue hosts Saturday service, one week after hostage standoff

FORT WORTH, Texas — Dozens around the world tuned into Congregation Beth Israel’s Saturday service in Colleyville to offer their support to the synagogue just a week after it was taken hostage.

Tribune News Service

FBI director, Colleyville rabbi, security experts speak about hostage standoff and healing

FORT WORTH, Texas — In Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s first public meeting since Saturday’s hostage situation in Colleyville, he joined FBI Director Christopher Wray and the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and Central Division Vice President Cheryl Drazin in discussing antisemitism, further investigation into the standoff at Congregation Beth Israel and…

Tribune News Service

Texas synagogue hostage-taker had stayed in area shelters

An armed man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue had spent time in area homeless shelters in the two weeks leading up to the attack, and was dropped off at one by someone he appeared to know

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Hostages talk about what happened while held captive inside Texas synagogue for 11 hours

DALLAS — A Colleyville rabbi held captive this weekend for more than 11 hours inside Congregation Beth Israel said Monday that he and two others escaped after he threw a chair at the hostage-taker.

Tribune News Service

‘We were terrified’: Texas rabbi and congregants detail hostage drama

The British hostage-taker was originally welcomed and offered tea before the situation turned ‘tense and terrifying’

The Guardian - US

Texas hostage siege: Rabbi tells how he threw chair at Malik Faisal Akram to escape synagogue attack

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker speaks out about the ‘terrifying’ ordeal at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville

The Independent UK

Rabbi says he threw chair at synagogue hostage-taker before lunging for the door

DALLAS — A Colleyville rabbi held captive this weekend for more than 11 hours inside Congregation Beth Israel said Monday that he and two others escaped after he threw a chair at the hostage-taker.

Tribune News Service

Colleyville Rabbi credits survival to active-shooter training

"It was terrifying. It was overwhelming and we're still processing."

Axios

Attacks on America’s Jewish community on the rise long before Colleyville, experts say

FORT WORTH, Texas — The hostage standoff inside a Colleyville synagogue Saturday reignited fears of antisemitic violence with news headlines that circled the globe. But for many Jewish Americans, the threat of such an attack — even at a small-town synagogue in North Texas — is something they live with…

Tribune News Service

Support flows to 'changed' Texas synagogue after standoff

The tight-knit congregation at a Texas synagogue where four people were held hostage by an armed captor during a 10-hour standoff over the weekend traces its roots back to a gathering organized over 20 years ago by a handful of families who were new to the area

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Texas rabbi: Security training paid off in hostage standoff

U.S. and British authorities are continuing an investigation into the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead

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