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Thursday, September 29, 2011 ★ Joshua Star ★ Page 3
ROSH HASHANAH
Area’s small Jewish community celebrates new year
BY DAVE SORTER
crowleystar@thestargroup.com
The line of cars heading
from Johnson County and
Crowley to Fort Worth syna-
gogues Wednesday night
wasn’t too long. In fact, you
may not have noticed it.
But the small number of
Jewish residents in the John-
son County-Crowley area be-
lieve the trip was worth it, as
they began to celebrate the
High Holy Days.
Rosh Hashanah, the be-
ginning of the Jewish new
year 5772, began at sundown
Wednesday and will last until
sundown Friday. The day is
meant to commemorate the
creation of the earth and is
highlighted by the blowing
of the shofar (ram’s horn). In
the Jewish religion, it marks
the day God seals people into
the “Book of Life.” That book
is sealed on Yom Kippur,
the holiest day of the Jewish
year, which begins at sun-
down Friday, Oct. 7, and ends
at sundown the next day. It is
traditional for Jews to spend
the entire day in temple and
to fast for the entire day.
“A majority of the people
here don’t understand Jew-
ish customs and traditions,”
said Caryn FitzGerald, who
lives in the North Joshua
area of Burleson. “A lot of it
is educating people.”
At least 30 J ewish families
live in the area, according to
a list compiled by Rabbi Be-
jarano Gutierrez from infor-
mation supplied by the five
synagogues in Fort Worth
and Arlington. Fourteen of
those families live in Crow-
ley, eight in Burleson, four in
Joshua, two in Alvarado and
one in an unincorporated
area between Burleson and
Keene.
Gutierrez produced the
list as part of an effort to
start havurahs (small groups
of Jews meeting for prayer,
primarily in areas not close
to a synagogue) around the
Dallas-Fort Worth area, ac-
cording to Gay Wynns of Bur-
leson. Though the small Jew-
ish community in the area
would likely not be able to
afford to bring a rabbi down
once a month to conduct ser-
vices, some Jewish families
in the area will meet in late
October to discuss occasional
local services.
The closest synagogues
in the area are the reform
Congregation Beth-El, the
conservative Congregation
Ahavath Shalom and the
orthodox Chabad of Fort
Worth, all in Fort Worth. Ar-
lington had the reform Con-
gregation Beth Shalom and
the orthodox Chabad of Ar-
lington.
“I’m disappointed that
all the Jewish stuff is in Dal-
las, but not in Fort Worth,”
Wynns said. ‘There’s really
nothing here.”
Wynns had been a mem-
ber of Congregation Beth-El
but decided to leave because
she and her husband, Tru-
man, who is not Jewish, are
retired and younger families
were the majority. They are
going to Ahavath Shalom for
High Holy Day services be-
cause that synagogue is pro-
viding free services for non-
members.
FitzGerald and her fam-
ily — her husband, Rick,
also is not Jewish —attend
Chabad of Arlington, where
her daughter, Sami, has just
started bat mitzvah training.
But because of the minimum
Jewish presence in the area,
a lot of their Jewish life re-
volves around the home.
That’s how they will spend a
lot of today, Rosh Hashanah
Day, she said.
“We’ll observe within our
own home,” she said. “We
won’t work and Sami won’t
go to school. We’ll spend a lot
of time reflecting, with just
the family, and a lot of long-
distance calls with my fam-
iiy.”
FitzGerald grew up in
New York and Florida. Mov-
ing to Burleson/Joshua has
been somewhat of a culture
shock for FitzGerald, whose
family moved here in 2009
from Mansfield, where there
is a much larger Jewish com-
munity.
“I’ve never lived in an
area with so few Jews,” she
said. “My daughter is the
only Jewish kid in her school
(North Joshua Elementary).
We try to educate her friends,
but not force anything. Her
friends are asking her about
the holidays, and she asks
them about the Christian
holidays. We usually have a
Hanukkah party.”
Once people learn about
the customs, they respect
them, FitzGerald said, though
she acknowledges living in
the area is “very strange. We
know nobody else around
who is Jewish.”
In fact, she educated the
North Joshua Elementary
administration at one point.
An administrator had asked
for a note from Sami’s rabbi
to excuse her absence from
school for a religious holiday,
Caryn FitzGerald said. She
showed the administrator the
state law that said that wasn’t
necessary, and the absence
was excused.
“It was an educational
experience for the teachers,
too,” she said. “It broadened
their horizons a little bit.”
On the other hand, a stu-
dent at Loflin Middle School
in the Joshua ISD last year
had no problem being ex-
cused for Yom Kippur.
But life in Johnson Coun-
ty makes it “worth the sch-
lep,” as FitzGerald said about
traveling to Arlington for ser-
vices.
‘The only thing I miss is
any kind of Jewish connec-
tion,” Wynns said. “I think it
would be nice to have a group
here.”
MURDER: Two in custody, one wanted by county sheriff
FROM PAGE 1
help in locating him so we
can bring him in and he can
answer to the allegations
against him, namely the capi-
tal murder of Richard War-
ren,” Alford said, during a
Monday press conference
at the Clifton Taylor Law
Enforcement Center in Cle-
burne. “We consider Cogdill
to be dangerous. We think
he is probably armed by now.
He’s carried weapons in the
past.”
The alleged murder took
place in the wee hours of Fri-
day, Sept. 23, when Warren’s
sister, who lives next door to
her brother, heard dogs bark-
ing. She looked out a window
and saw two men running
from the house. She went to
check on her brother, who
lived alone, found him unre-
sponsive and called the sher-
iffs office to report a home
invasion, burglary and assault,
a release from the sheriffs of-
fice said.
‘The crime scene was un-
necessarily violent,” Alford
said. “Mr. Warren died from
blunt force trauma. He was
beaten in the head with a ham-
TRAVIS:
FROM PAGE 1
Adamie said. The perfor-
mance was cancelled.
More than 500 people
turned out for the annual gala.
Proceeds from the black-tie
event provide cancer screen-
ings and services for uninsured
and financially challenged pa-
tients, gala coordinator Lau-
rie Evans said. An estimated
$85,000 in proceeds was
raised.
Travis apologized at one
point for his “vocal chords
giving out” on him, while the
band kept playing. Travis tried
to start singing again, stopped,
stumbled and fell forward
onto the stage landing near
MedStar medical director J eff
Beeson’s table during his per-
formance of ‘Three Wooden
Crosses.” Travis rose to his feet
about 10 minutes after collaps-
ing and left.
Burleson Mayor Ken Shet-
ter served as master of cer-
emonies. He thanked the au-
dience for the their patience
during the ordeal and Huguley
CEO Ken Finch closed the gala
with a prayer for Travis
Travis’s tour manager, Jeff
Davis, said the 52-year-old
had a bad reaction to some al-
lergy medicine he took earlier
in the day. That, and a cup of
coffee combined to cause the
collapse, a Huguley spokes-
person said.
Travis has a Star on Hol-
lywood’s Walk of Fame, was
twice the Country Music As-
sociation’s Male Vocalist of the
Year and has won six Grammy
awards.
Paul Gnadt and Dave
Sorter contributed to this
story.
mer and wrench. I believe it
was all three who did it. They
didn’t have to kill this man.
They could have taken any-
thing they wanted without kill-
ing him. It was senseless and
brutal.”
Two men, Jeremy Chad
Bukowski, 25, known on the
street as “Bounce,” and Isaac
Paul Milne, 25, with a street
name of “Rooster,” have been
arrested for the crime and
have implicated Cogdill, Al-
ford said. A reported sight-
ing of Cogdill at the Cleburne
Walmart on Saturday night
tuned out to be a false alarm,
Alford said.
“Crime stoppers received a
tip that Cogdill was seen going
through the check-out line,”
Alford said.
Cleburne police, Cleburne
SWAT and sheriffs depart-
ment deputies arrived about
10 p.m. and shut down the
store and parking lot. All ve-
hicles leaving the lot were
searched and the store was
searched. Cogdill was not ob-
served on video, Alford said.
“He was not located, but
a cousin of Milne’s was at the
store and was arrested for an
outstanding felony warrant on
an unrelated matter,” Alford
said.
The cousin and Cogdill
do not resemble each other.
The cousin’s presence at the
Walmart was totally a coinci-
dence, Alford said.
The press conference was
attended by Somervell and
Johnson County District At-
torney Dale Hanna and Texas
Ranger Don Stoner.
Alford alerted Hanna
about the situation as he was
en route to the crime scene, he
said.
The charge is capital mur-
der because Warren’s death
occurred during the commis-
sion of other crimes, namely
a home invasion and burglary,
Hanna said.
Milne was arrested at 7:45
a.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, while
walking along Parkway in Al-
varado.
“Good police work resulted
in the arrests of Bukowski and
Milne,” Alford said.
When Bukowski was ar-
rested at a mobile home in
rural Alvarado, a woman with
him told authorities that he,
Milne and Cogdill stole a gui-
tar, TV, shotgun and computer
and took them along with some
bloody clothes to Bukowski’s
travel trailer, according to the
arrest warrant affidavit.
“We obtained a search
warrant and found three items
taken from the victim,” Alford
said. ‘We believe we have the
murder weapons, which have
been sent to the crime lab for
analysis.”
Bukowski had previously
lived in the house and knew
about some items of value, Al-
ford said.
Warren lived there with a
woman and she let Bukowski
move in, to., Eventually, oth-
ers moved in and they kicked
out Bukowski, Alford said.
‘The motive is burglary,”
Alford said. “Items missing in-
clude a guitar and other musi-
cal instruments.”
The sheriff would not re-
veal what other items were
taken until he can interview
Cogdill, he said.
The suspects have a history
of using drugs, but there is no
evidence of drug activity at the
victim’s house, Alford said.
Cogdill has brown hair,
brown eyes, is about 5-foot-8
and 140 pounds, Alford said.
“Cogdill has very distinc-
tive tattoos,” Alford said. “He
can alter his facial hair and
wear a wig, but he’s going to
have to do a lot of skin burning
to get rid of his tattoos.”
Cogdill’s tattoos are:
■ The words “exclusive
taste” on the left side of his neck
■ A series of tattoos,
known as a “sleeve” on his en-
tire left arm
■ The words “white pride”
below his belly button across
his abdomen
■ The words “Bam Bam”
on his left rib cage
■ A swastika on his right
rib cage
■ An outline of the state
of Texas on the back of his left
hand
Sheriff’s office investiga-
tors have been working on
this nonstop, Alford said.
“We will bring Cogdill in
and we’re asking the public’s
help to do that,” Alford said.
“Don’t take any action
yourself if you see Cogdill,”
Alford said. “Use the nearest
phone and call 9-1-1.”
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