How 9/11 transformed synagogue security into a new reality for the Jewish community

At sundown on Friday, Sept. 11, as America marks 25 years since the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, Jewish families across the country will welcome in Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year marking 5787. They will enter synagogues at the moment of peak annual attendance, walking past armed guards, security cameras, secured doors […]

9/11 sent them to war. 25 years later, veterans grapple with what followed

John Byrnes was swimming in a pool beneath Hunter College in Manhattan on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when he stepped outside for coffee and heard sirens blaring down Lexington Avenue. He learned that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Minutes later, he saw the North Tower collapse on a campus television […]

Top House chairman warns Congress against ‘complacency’ 25 years after 9/11

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., remembers exactly where he was when the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. “I was a senior in high school. I was in Mr. Ponzi’s government class. And that’s when the first plane hit. And one of the other teachers came in and was […]

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