A year ago, a rabbi and three others survived a hostage standoff at their synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.

Houses of worship are meant to be places of shelter, reflection and peace, where strangers are welcome.

In the three months since Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three of his congregants were held at gunpoint in their Texas synagogue, new carpet has been laid in the sanctuary, the walls have been repainted, the entry retiled and new doors installed.

The Jewish Federations of North America, or JFNA, is working to bolster security across Jewish communities.

Rabbis, public officials and others made statements of defiance against antisemitism at Sabbath services a week after last weekend's hostage siege at a Texas synagogue.

A White House spokeswoman says an armed British man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended in his death entered the United States without raising any red flags during multiple checks against law enforcement databases.

Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, strives to be a place where people belong, according to their website. So when a stranger knocked on the door, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, originally from Lansing, let him in.

The tight-knit congregation at a Texas synagogue where four people were held hostage by an armed captor during a 10-hour standoff over the weekend traces its roots back to a gathering organized over 20 years ago by a handful of families who were new to the area.

The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during livestreamed services says he threw a chair at his captor before escaping with two others after an hourslong standoff.

Rabbi Charlie Cryton Walker is celebrating his freedom after surviving a 10 hour stand off in Texas.

One of the people who had been hostage Saturday at a Texas synagogue is originally from Lansing, Mich.

The FBI has identified the man killed after taking hostages at Texas synagogue as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram.

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One of the people who had been hostage Saturday at a Texas synagogue is originally from Lansing, Mich.

A man held people hostage for more than 10 hours at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting in a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army officers in Afghanistan.

Police in England say they have arrested two teenagers in their investigation into an armed British national holding four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue.