2022 Texas synagogue attack

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 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, Feb. 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

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

This January 2, 2022 photo provided by OurCalling, LLC shows Malik Faisal Akram, at a Dallas homeless shelter. (OurCalling, LLC via AP)

January 24, 2022, 4:36 am

Brother of Texas synagogue hostage-taker says ‘religious nuts got a hold of him’

Gulbar Akram also asserts that brother Akram had not been antisemitic: ‘He didn’t hate Jews. One of his closest friends is Jewish’

By TOI staff and Agencies

Police stand in front of the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, Jan. 16, 2022, in Colleyville, Texas (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)

January 22, 2022, 9:25 am

‘Show up in shul’: US Jewish leaders urge synagogue attendance after Texas attack

‘Loudly state by your presence that you will not be driven into hiding’: Calls for strong turnout as statement of defiance against antisemitism after hostage siege in Colleyville

By Peter Smith

January 22, 2022, 4:12 am

Reversing earlier miscue, FBI say Texas was ‘terrorist attack on Jewish community’

White House organizes call with Jewish-Americans following hostage-taking in Colleyville, after FBI agent left impression that authorities weren’t treating incident as antisemitic

By Ron Kampeas

January 22, 2022, 3:29 am

‘Time to go’: Hostages escaped Texas synagogue as FBI SWAT team moved in

Special agent, rabbi reveal new details about final moments of standoff at Congregation Beth Israel, say both took ‘near simultaneous plans of action’ as situation deteriorated

By AP and Jacob Magid