Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Dani Menkin and Colleyville hostage crisis survivor Jeff Cohen on Zoom

Director: Dani Menkin
2024, USA, 80 minutes
English with English subtitles
Feature

Ticket Price: $15

On January 15, 2022, an armed man entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during a livestreamed Shabbat service and held Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three congregants hostage at gunpoint for 11 harrowing hours. Thanks to the rabbi and congregants’ courageous and level-headed management of the crisis, all four hostages left the synagogue alive. Documentarian Dani Menkin (NJJFF films On the Map and Aulcie) reconstructs this dramatic event using exclusive access to the synagogue’s surveillance camera footage and interviews with the participants inside and outside the synagogue. All too aware of the hatred and threats that Jews around the world continue to face, Colleyville offers a profound example of human and communal resilience.

Co-sponsored by The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College of NJ