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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 · Jan 17, 2022

Texas rabbi who was held hostage in synagogue siege says he’s grateful to be alive

A rabbi who was held hostage at a synagogue in Texas has said he is “grateful to be alive”.

indy100 · Jan 17, 2022

Texas synagogue attack: Who is Aafia Siddiqui? A federal prisoner linked to the hostage situation

Siddiqui’s attorney denies the Pakistani neuroscientist had any involvement in ‘wicked’ actions

The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2022

'He's got a criminal record. How was he allowed a visa?': Texas hostage taker's family demands answer after he's killed

Gulbar Akram has demanded more information about how the incident involving his brother had been allowed to unfold

Manchester Evening News · Jan 17, 2022

Here, the ‘COVID numb’ are vaxxed, vexed and trying to make it work

MANSFIELD, Texas — On a recent Friday night at Lake Ridge High School in this suburb south of Arlington, Alex Hawkins sat by himself in the upper reaches of a gymnasium that, in the vernacular of the day, allowed plenty of social distancing.

Tribune News Service · Jan 17, 2022

Cynthia M. Allen: As New York, DC turn to vaccine passports, here’s why pandemic life is better in Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas — The other morning, a friend from Washington, D.C., sent me an exasperated text with a link to the new vaccine passport requirements for our nation’s capital.

Tribune News Service · Jan 17, 2022

Manchester police arrest two teenagers in relation to Texas synagogue attack

Counterterrorism police arrest two teenagers in Manchester in relation to an attack in the United States, in which a British man held four people hostage for 10 hours before being shot dead by a SWAT team.

ABC News · Jan 17, 2022

Texas hostage taker shot dead pictured for first time as counter terror police arrest two in Manchester

Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn, held four hostages at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas

Manchester Evening News · Jan 17, 2022

Teens quizzed in Manchester as MI5 probes Texas siege

Two UK teenagers were on Monday being questioned by counter-terrorism detectives as police and MI5 joined the FBI in probing the Texas synagogue siege in which an armed British hostage taker was shot dead.

Evening Standard · Jan 17, 2022

FBI under fire for claiming Texas synagogue attack wasn’t related to anti-Semitism

FBI claims attacker was focused on issue not directly connected to the Jewish community

The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2022