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Anonymous wrote:Very proud of the rabbi. He trained at Hebrew Union College in Cincy where I am from.

Went to high school with him - good dude.

Nice!

Anonymous wrote:Very proud of the rabbi. He trained at Hebrew Union College in Cincy where I am from.

Went to high school with him - good dude.

Very proud of the rabbi. He trained at Hebrew Union College in Cincy where I am from.

Anonymous wrote:Incredible work by the authorities to neutralize the terrorist and free the hostages. G-d bless the Jewish community!

Per their own words, they were not freed.

“We escaped,” Mr. Cohen wrote in his account on Facebook. “We weren’t released or freed.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/us/texas-synagogue-hostages-escape.html

It's a pretty amazing story.

I live in Pittsburgh - everyone came together after Tree of Life. The Muslim community was especially helpful to the Jewish community in Squirrel Hill where Tree of Life is. I belong to a different synagogue, about a half hour away. I’m on the board and I can’t stop thinking about how we have to make sure our employees and congregants are protected. We have a lot of measures in place but we live in very scary times.

Anonymous wrote:WaPo has a great article with a ticktock of how it all unfolded. The coming together of local clergy-- evangelical Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim-- during the crisis was really uplifting. I don't think until I read it just how starved I am for that.

Read this one instead--it's really the far more on-point take: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-people-just-dont-like-us-in-a-texas-synagogue-11-hours-of-terror/2022/01/16/3538f950-76d4-11ec-bf97-6eac6f77fba2_story.html