The rabbi held hostage along with three others in a Colleyville synagogue in January has a new gig.
As reported by the Religion News Service, Charlie Cytron-Walker will become rabbi of Temple Emanuel, a Reform congregation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Even before the hostage-taking, Cytron-Walker had already resigned from Colleyville's Congregation Beth Israel but he did not yet have a new position.
Then he became internationally known on January 15th when a man took Cytron-Walker and three other men hostage in a mis-guided effort to get a woman set free from Federal Medical Center Carswell, a prison hospital in Fort Worth.
After one man escaped on his own, Cytron-Walker threw a chair at the hostage-taker, distracting him long enough for the rest of them to run for it.
Leaders of his new congregation say Cytron-Walker's calm response to the crisis only reinforced their interest in hiring him.
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