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Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker (right) speaks with Ben Breakstone, engagement and media coordinator, at Temple Emanuel in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, July 13, 2022. (Photo/JTA-RNS-Yonat Shimron)
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At new pulpit, ‘Rabbi Charlie’ balances Colleyville fame with one-to-one connection

Yonat Shimron by Yonat Shimron and RNS July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

At Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s third Shabbat service in his new congregation, gun safety was uppermost in his mind, as it has been for months now. In his 10-minute sermon on […]

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
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker was held hostage inside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, Jan. 15, 2022.
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‘Quite simply a mensch’: Meet Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, freed after hostage crisis at his synagogue

by Andrew Lapin and JTA January 16, 2022

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