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'It’s scary to be Jewish in America these days,' says religious leader acquainted with Charlie Cytron-Walker, the rabbi taken hostage in Colleyville last week
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 […]
Across the country and world, rabbis and those who help them lead their synagogues are weighing a host of concerns, including, is their security strong enough?
“We'll have more people in person this week than we had last week,” one rabbi said. “In moments of trauma, people want to be together."
There are many lessons---sobering and uplifting---to be drawn from last month's horrifying hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas.