‘We are not healed’: The Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis, one year later

On January 15, 2022, a gunman took four people hostage inside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville. A year later, two of the hostages reflect on how their lives have changed, and what needs to be done to fight the rise in antisemitism in the U.S.
Jeff Cohen is an engineer. He’s from Keller. And he’s the president of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville.

"Up until a year ago, that would have been my whole thing,” he said.

A year ago, a 44-year-old Englishman named Malik Faisal Akram took Cohen and three other people hostage at the synagogue, starting a standoff with police that would last 11 hours. All the hostages managed to escape, and law enforcement entered the building and killed Akram inside.