Tuesday April 12, 2022
I've Been Thinking:

The now famous Texas synagogue – the synagogue that captured the attention of the world when the synagogue rabbi and three congregants were held captive by a terrorist - recently re-opened.

Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, TX had been damaged by the attack. Windows were broken and doors were destroyed. There were bullet holes in the walls.

Much of the synagogue needed to be repaired.

Anna Salton Eisen, a synagogue founder, said that the scene reminded her of the abandoned synagogues in Poland, still marked with bullets from World War II, that she saw while visiting that country in 1998 with her parents — both Holocaust survivors.

She said: “I was standing in my synagogue this time and it was just empty and silent and it showed the marks of the violence that had occurred.”

Eisen added that the return to their synagogue will help the healing process for her fellow congregants.

She said: “We are not defeated and we are not going to live in fear.”

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