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A Jewish security expert says preparedness can be an antidote to fear.

From the blog of Jonah Rank at The Times of Israel

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 simply did what he was trained to do, and proved that active-shooter training works.

Rabbi Katie Bauman from Touro Synagogue in Uptown New Orleans was relieved to hear they're okay. She went to the seminary with Cytron-Walker.

The Texas rabbi who threw a chair at a gunman to help him and two others survive a hostage situation held a prayer service in the wake of the deadly ordeal.

Will there be copycats? That is the "palpable fear" at synagogues around the country after the hostage-taking in Texas over the weekend, an exec with the Jewish Community...

(COLLEYVILLE, Texas) — The Texas rabbi who threw a chair at a gunman to help himself and two others survive a hostage situation held a prayer service in the wake of the deadly ordeal. Just two days after a gun-wielding suspect took Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker […]

Jewish leaders across the country are weighing the risks to congregants safety after the hostage-taking at a Texas synagogue over the weekend.

ANDY JACOBSOHN/AFP via Getty Images(COLLEYVILLE, Texas) -- The Texas rabbi who threw a chair at a gunman to help himself and two others survive a hostage