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The chair and the teacup from the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue hostage crisis will be entering the American Jewish history museum in Philadelphia. (Photos/JTA-Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and Emil Lippe-Getty Images. Illustration/JTA-Mollie Suss)

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The chair a Texas rabbi threw at his captor is headed to American Jewish history museum

by Andrew Lapin and JTA April 5, 2022April 5, 2022

When the rabbi at the center of January’s synagogue hostage standoff first encountered the stranger who would soon hold him at gunpoint, he served him a cup of tea. Eleven […]