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Texas hostage crisis was a watershed moment in the livestreaming of American synagogues

For the first time, streaming gave the world a front-row seat Saturday into a dangerous attack on a Jewish community.

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“I was a Reform rabbi, but I always wore a yarmulke,” Dresner said in 2011. “I wanted people to know I was Jewish.”

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Texas synagogue gunman spoke twice to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl in New York City

“It was a surreal and scary day,” the senior rabbi at Central Synagogue said. “I am so grateful for the outcome.”

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