Colleyville synagogue

Two Jews shot while leaving Los Angeles synagogue, suspect detained

The suspect reportedly has a history of animus towards the Jewish community, according to the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN
A Los Angeles police car sits outside the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, September 17, 2001
New Jersey police officers stand guard in front of the United Synagogue of Hoboken in New Jersey, U.S., November 4, 2022

US Jewish organizations are investing heavily in security -JNFA CEO

One year after the Colleyville hostage-taking, Jewish organizations are accelerating the building of security measures, while antisemitism rises.

|ByOMRI NAHMIAS
CONGREGATION BETH Israel in Colleyville, Texas, the site of the January 15, 2022, hostage crisis. ‘What I have discovered is that an equal and opposite force of love for the Jewish people exists in our world,’ says the writer.

January 15: Remembering the Colleyville, Texas synagogue hostage crisis - opinion

I urge you this Sabbath to heed the lessons of January 15 and the Holocaust that if Jews have survived the worst of humanity, they are also somehow capable of demonstrating the best of humanity.

|ByANNA SALTON EISEN
Then US-president elect Donald Trump and musician Kanye West pose for media at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, US, December 13, 2016.

The top ten worst antisemitic incidents of 2022 - SWC

In a year filled with antisemitic rhetoric and attacks, the Shimon Wiesenthal Center ranked their ten most prominent antisemitic incidents of 2022.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Diaspora Min. Nachman Shai: We have to take a proactive role in combating antisemitism

JEWISH WORLD AFFAIRS: After Colleyville, and ahead of Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day, Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai and Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan talk antisemitism and the Holocaust.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByLAHAV HARKOV
YAD VASHEM chairman Dani Dayan (left) and Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai: [Organizations and states] try to deny the very fact that antisemitism is still here, especially in Europe, which has suffered so much from antisemitism.

US synagogues reassess security in wake of Colleyville hostage taking

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: While that attack ended without any of the congregants being harmed, synagogues and Jewish communities across the United States are once again on heightened alert.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByHALEY COHEN
RABBI CHARLIE Cytron-Walker talks to reporters outside of Whites Chapel United Methodist Church following a special service on Monday in Southlake, Texas.

Colleyville sounds the siren for the Knesset on danger of antisemitism - opinion

This is a call to action for all who cherish democracy and recognize that antisemitism does not only threaten Jews or Israel, but the societies in which it is permitted to mutate and permeate.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByMICHAL COTLER-WUNSH
ALIYAH AND INTEGRATION Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata speaks at a meeting in the Knesset with the Jewish People’s Lobby in November.

My Word: Peace and the non-rational enemy

It must be recognized that this was not only a terrorist attack. When Jews are targeted simply for being Jews, it is an act of antisemitism.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByLIAT COLLINS
A man prays at a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October 2018.

Societal psychosis and the ‘mental illness’ excuse - opinion

However ostensibly unstable poor Malik Faisal Akram was during his life, his Islamist leanings were steady throughout.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByRUTHIE BLUM
An armored law enforcement vehicle is seen in the area where a man has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue during services that were being streamed live, in Colleyville, Texas, US January 15, 2022.

From vigils to vitriol, the Texas hostage crisis showed social media at its best and worst

Even as the lives of four people hung in the balance, Jews and Muslims sniped.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Law enforcement vehicles are seen in the area where a man has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue during services that were being streamed live, in Colleyville, Texas, US, January 15, 2022.

Colleyville synagogue rabbi after attack: 'It's safe to go to shul'

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker also added that Congregation Beth Israel is still struggling to figure out how to heal.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker.

Colleyville is an opportunity for US Jews to rethink our approach to curbing antisemitism- opinion

JANUARY 20, 2022ByJUDAH BERNSTEIN/ JTA
Emergency responders are seen near a synagogue where a man has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue during services that were being streamed live, in Colleyville, Texas, U.S. January 15, 2022.

Texas synagogue terrorist said he was 'opening door' for attacks on US

"We're coming to f***ing America...We'll give them f***ing war," Malik Faisal Akram told his brother in a recorded call.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An armored law enforcement vehicle is seen in the area where a man has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue during services that were being streamed live, in Colleyville, Texas, US January 15, 2022.

After Colleyville attack, US officials talk to over 1,500 Jewish reps

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI director Chris Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland were among those who participated in the call.

JANUARY 19, 2022ByOMRI NAHMIAS
Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, where four hostages were held.