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2022 Texas synagogue attack

A law enforcement vehicle is seen near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP)
February 13, 2023, 5:59 pm
Four in ten American Jews felt less secure in 2022 than year before — survey
A quarter of respondents to AJC poll say they’d been directly targeted with antisemitic expressions, either in person or on social media, while 3% report physical attacks
By Agencies
This undated booking photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff's Office shows Henry "Michael" Dwight Williams. (Dallas County Sheriff's Office via AP)
October 25, 2022, 3:17 am
Man who sold gun to Texas synagogue attacker gets 8 years in prison
Ex-felon convicted of possession of semi-automatic pistol later used by Malik Faisal Akram to hold rabbi and 3 others hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville
By AP
A stained glass window that once had bullet holes is now repaired at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
August 20, 2022, 2:11 am
CNN antisemitism special covers synagogue attacks, targeting of Zionist students
‘Rising Hate: Antisemitism in America,’ airing this weekend, tours through some low points in recent American Jewish history, offers analysis of ongoing spike in incidents
By PHILISSA CRAMER
A law enforcement vehicle sits in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP)
July 1, 2022, 6:03 am
Man pleads guilty to selling pistol to Texas synagogue hostage-taker
Henry Dwight Williams faces up to 10 years in US federal prison over sale of gun to Malik Faisal Akram, who took rabbi and three others hostage before being fatally shot by FBI
By AP
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker adjusts the microphones while testing the sound system at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Three months after an armed captor took hostages at the Texas synagogue during a 10-hour standoff that ended with the escape of the hostages and fatal shooting of the gunman by the FBI, the house of worship is reopening. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
April 9, 2022, 12:36 am
Texas synagogue reopens for first Shabbat service three months after hostage crisis
Congregation Beth Israel Colleyville underwent repairs and renovations after a gunman held rabbi and three congregants at gunpoint before being shot dead by FBI
By Jamie Stengle
The chair and the teacup from the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue hostage crisis will be entering the American Jewish history museum in Philadelphia. (Images courtesy of Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and Emil Lippe/Getty Images; Photo illustration by Mollie Suss)
April 5, 2022, 7:50 am
The chair a Texas rabbi threw at his captor is headed to a museum
‘The Cup and the Chair’ from the synagogue hostage-taking in Colleyville will be part of a new exhibit on modern-day antisemitism in America
By Andrew Lapin
Deborah Lipstadt, nominated to be the US special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, with the rank of ambassador, speaks during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
March 31, 2022, 7:38 am
Lipstadt approved as US antisemitism envoy, wrapping up 8-month confirmation process
With Republicans lacking votes to block Holocaust historian’s appointment, none of them raise objection to Democrat’s request to confirm it by unanimous consent
By Jacob Magid
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker speaks to reporters outside of Whites Chapel United Methodist Church following a special service, on January 17, 2022, in Southlake, Texas. (Emil Lippe/Getty Images/AFP)
February 8, 2022, 11:52 pm
‘I welcomed terrorist into my shul’: Texas rabbi urges Congress to up security funds
During testimony before US House panel, Charlie Cytron-Walker says decision still haunts him; expresses concern over need to take steps that might make synagogues less inviting
By Jacob Magid
Deborah Lipstadt, nominated to be the US special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, with the rank of ambassador, speaks during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
February 8, 2022, 8:51 pm
Biden antisemitism envoy nominee faces GOP criticism at confirmation hearing
Sens. Rubio and Johnson raise old tweet by Deborah Lipstadt calling out Republicans for bigotry; Holocaust scholar insists she speaks out against both sides of the aisle
By Jacob Magid
Deborah Lipstadt, author of 'Antisemitism: Here and Now' (Osnat Perelshtein via JTA)
February 2, 2022, 9:29 am
Biden’s antisemitism monitor nominee Deborah Lipstadt to get confirmation hearing
Nomination had been delayed due to historian’s sharp criticisms of Republicans, despite appeals from Jewish community groups in wake of Colleyville synagogue attack
By Ron Kampeas
American historian and author Deborah Lipstadt poses for photographer at the Rome Film festival in Rome, on October 17, 2016. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)
February 1, 2022, 5:46 pm
Jewish groups urge approval of Lipstadt as US antisemitism envoy after Colleyville
Jewish Federations of North America spearhead letter to Senate citing ‘a rising tide of antisemitic speech and physical attacks’ against Jews around the world
By Ron Kampeas
US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with private sector CEOs in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via AFP)
January 27, 2022, 5:22 pm
Biden warns of ‘resurgence of antisemitism’ in Holocaust commemoration
US president says recent hostage standoff incident at Texas synagogue is a reminder ‘that hate doesn’t go away; it only hides’; VP, second gentleman meet with Holocaust survivor
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
SWAT team members deploy near Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on January 15, 2022.(Andy Jacobsohn/AFP)
January 27, 2022, 1:09 am
US authorities arrest suspect who sold gun to synagogue hostage-taker
Malik Akram purchased semiautomatic Taurus G2C pistol 2 days before Texas standoff, telling dealer he needed it to ‘intimidate’ someone who owed him cash, Justice Department says
By Jacob Magid
A law enforcement vehicle is seen near the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP)
January 26, 2022, 12:41 pm
Two more men arrested in UK over Texas synagogue attack
British counterterrorism police say four others also questioned over connection to Malik Faisal Akram, who took hostages at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville
By AFP
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an interview at the UN Headquarters, on January 20, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
January 26, 2022, 9:06 am
UN chief decries antisemitism, urges world to ‘stand firm’ against hatred, bigotry
Guterres, at NY synagogue service, decries rise of ‘oldest form of hate and prejudice’; Rabbi Schneier on anti-vaxxers: Wearing yellow star after 1945 ‘is sign of vicious hatred’
By Edith M. Lederer
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