During the Colleyville Crisis, The Sounds of Silence

For 11 hours this past Shabbat, the Jews of America and the world held their collective breath. We were waiting to see how the hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, would play out. We were reliving the prayer from the Days of Awe: "Who shall live, and who shall die?" Only one person died -- the gunman himself. The rabbi, Charlie Cytron-Walker, emerged as a true hero.