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Dec 29, 2024, 1:56 AM

A Chanukah Wish: Bringing Our Hostages Home

Ayelet Raymond, Kosher Barbie

As we hope for a Chanukah miracle, I look down at the flickering candles—each small flame symbolizing our hopes for the freedom of the 100 hostages, including seven Americans. Last week, on a snowy Sunday morning in Central Park—the coldest...

Charlie Cytron-Walker

Oct 27, 2023, 8:59 AM

Colleyville Survivors Embrace Families of Hostages

The following is offered with love by Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, Jeff Cohen, Lawrence Schwartz, and Shane Woodward -- the four survivors of the 11-hour hostage incident that took place in Colleyville, TX on January 15, 2022 -- the four...

Jeffrey R. Cohen

Feb 25, 2022, 3:40 PM

I was taken hostage in Colleyville and I’ll never let racism slide again

The sign outside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. (Courtesy Jeffrey R. Cohen)

Our attacker had clearly bathed in racist tropes about my community. Ignoring slurs is dangerous: like sticks and stones, words do hurt us

Michael Feldstein

Feb 4, 2022, 11:01 PM

Colleyville … and the Sad Aftermath

Pittsburgh. Jersey City. Monsey. Poway. And now Colleyville. But this time, it was different … and not because, thank God, no one was killed or injured, but because of the various reactions from both the Jewish and non-Jewish communities after this...

Aliyah Jacobson

Feb 3, 2022, 5:55 AM

A Jewish Response To The Recent Hostage Situation in Colleyville, Texas

On Jan. 22, a mentally ill Muslim man from Pakistan, Malik Faisal Akram entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, interrupting the bar mitzvah service that was taking place. Akram demanded to see his sister, Aaifia Siddique, and took...

Bonnie K. Goodman

Jan 30, 2022, 6:01 PM

Antisemitism in Canada Today

Anti-Semitism in the United States. Source: Wikipedia Commons

Some might want to deny it, but antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry There was an outpouring of support for the North Texas, Colleyville Congregation Beth Israel from all over the world, the Jewish community, political leaders, and...

Jan 28, 2022, 9:54 PM

The Danger of attributing Diaspora Antisemitism to Zionism

Copyright: ABC News

When a former non-Jewish co-worker shared a 2019 article entitled “Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic” following the recent synagogue hostage situation in Texas this past week, I assumed the post to be well-intentioned. Indeed, when he decried...

Bonnie K. Goodman

Jan 28, 2022, 9:51 PM

Antisemitism in the US today

Anti-Semitism in the United States. Source: Wikipedia Commons

Some might want to deny it, but antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry Colleyville attack, Holocaust remembrance, and persistent anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS An updated report on the state of anti-Semitism in the world shows...

Bonnie K. Goodman

Jan 28, 2022, 6:45 PM

Colleyville synagogue attack and rising antisemitism

Anti-Semitism in the United States. Source: Wikipedia Commons

Some might want to deny it, but antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry Colleyville attack, Holocaust remembrance, and persistent anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism My heart breaks for the act of antisemitic terrorism at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, but...

Manya Brachear Pashman

Jan 28, 2022, 6:11 PM

Grappling with My Purpose After Colleyville

It’s been more than a week since four hostages were taken at a synagogue in Texas, just two hours from where I spent part of my childhood and adolescence. Hours after the news broke, my mother texted. “Are you watching?”...

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