The founder and former president of Congregation Beth Israel, the Texas synagogue where four people were held hostage by an armed captor during a 10-hour standoff, said she's been bowled over by the intensity of support they've gotten during the ordeal.
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.
Eisen said she has been bowled over by the intensity of the support the congregants have gotten during the hostage ordeal, but that she also has gotten a “painful awakening” that “our history is now going to be changed.
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who was among the hostages, credited the security training his congregation had gotten over the years for getting him and the others though the ordeal.
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