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Between the negotiator and the hostage taker grab and float a little bit and sometimes got intense but these negotiators i am telling you i am so proud of them, unbelievable work. >> the fbis been at the synagogue all day today processing evidence, malik faisal akram brother posted on facebook the family was also speaking last night they are devastated by his death but they also condemned his actions and added he was suffering from mental health issues. rabbi charlie cytron-walker was also the h...

You have an update of the synagogue event in dallas. >> we are getting details of what happened during the saturday service. how the rabbi managed to escape and got everyone else out of the building. morgan chesky has the details. >> reporter: the hostage crisis is now international. authorities ided the suspect. a 44-year-old british citizen who the fbi said acted alone. a senior law enforcement official sharing police in the u.k. questioned akrams two teenage son who were in touch with the sus...

Get out without even a shot being fired. >> law enforcement officials have identified the hostage taker as 44-year-old malik faisal akram. he is a british citizen. law enforcement sources tell cnn akram arrived legally in the united states in late december at jfk airport in new york. eventually making his way to texas where he spent three nights at this dallas homeless shelter in the days leading up to the hostage standoff. on saturday morning, akram showed up to the synagogue, rabbi walker thou...

Jeffrey myers. rabbi, i have called you americas rabbi before. its always a pleasure to speak with you. i always regret so often it has to be in situations like this. so your reaction this morning? >> well, i could say that at least today im doing better. but this has certainly shaken not just me and my community, but jews throughout the united states to the core. how do we say, oh, no, not again. not another. >> and to hear from the rabbi walker, without the instruction, we would not have been ...

History. thankfully, all hostages in texas made it out alive but as a senior fellow at the tel aviv institute puts it, being jewish and alive shouldnt be a miracle but it is. and director for the american jewish committee with this reality. quote, if you attend religious services without armed guards at the entrance, without fear of attack, you do not experience religious life as american jews do. with me now, writer for the atlantic. in that same vein, rabbi walker, who of course is one of the ...

>> todays holocaust remembrance day, international holocaust remem remembrance, adds to t the .poignant cy, irony. >> lets talk about this with rabbi walker, one of the four hostages held in his congregation in colleyville, texas, just over a week ago. rabbi, thanks for joining us. i do want to talk about how you and your congregation are doing in the wake of that terrifying stand-off but i do want to ask about your reaction to the removal of this very powerful book about the holocaust by this t...

The attack Saturday (Jan. 15) on a synagogue near Fort Worth, Texas, where four people were taken hostage, reverberated across the American Jewish community and heightened concerns about safety and security. Those concerns are particularly acute in Uptown New Orleans, which not only two synagogues, Temple Sinai and Touro Synagogue, but Tulane University’s Hillel and […]

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker is from Michigan and once worked in Detroit at a non-profit.