'We can't live in fear': Texas Rabbi held hostage says he'd give a stranger tea again
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker says we cannot live in fear. He and three congregants were held hostage by a man who knocked on the synagogue door and came in for tea.
It began with a knock on the door.
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker let the man who had knocked into his synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, in the suburbs of Forth Worth, Texas.
The man was cold so Rabbi Charlie, as he's known, made him a cup of hot tea.
The Saturday morning Shabbat service started.
Rabbi Charlie stood on the bimah, the raised platform at the front of a synagogue. He began a prayer.
"I was facing away from the congregation. When Jews pray, we pray towards Jerusalem," he said.
Then, he heard a click.
"I thought
