Collective Threat Response Initiative

10/07/2026

Three years.

Today, we remember the 1,200 murdered on that horrific day. We remember the families who buried their children, the communities that torn apart, the lives that ended at a music festival and in homes along the envelope.

We remember the heroic soldiers who fell, outnumbered while fighting like lions to hold their positions. We remember the men and women of the kitot konenut who ran toward the gunfire to defend their own communities. They were farmers, teachers, and neighbors who had trained for something they prayed would never come.

This is the first anniversary with everyone home, the living and the fallen. We hold their families in our thoughts.

In the years since, the hate that day unleashed has reached Jewish communities far from Israel, in cities and synagogues and neighborhoods around the world. What it has also revealed is a community that keeps showing up for one another.

May their memories be a blessing.

09/23/2026

Cohort 2601 Has Graduated.

Six Guardians completed CTRI's armed security officer training program in August, capping 80 hours of professional instruction with a demanding culmination exercise run alongside local first responders. A seventh finishes shortly.

That 80 hours is on top of everything their state requires of an armed security officer. Fi****ms and tactical skills, active threat response, tactical emergency casualty care, threat detection, de-escalation and use of force. Not every applicant who started finished. The standard is high because it has to be.

Every one of them is a member of the community they will protect. These are people with jobs and families who spent their Sundays training so that they can stand post where their own families pray. We are proud of them.

We are grateful to the synagogues that opened their doors to us for training this year. This program does not happen without them.

Recruiting for our next cohort opens soon: ctresponse.org/get-involved/guardian-signup

09/11/2026

Shana Tova from all of us at CTRI. Wishing you and your family a sweet, healthy, and safe new year.

07/27/2026

CTRI was featured in the August edition of Washington Jewish Week — in print and online.

Reporter Zoe Bell spent time with our cohort and captured what we're building. We're proud of what this community is creating together

Amid recent headlines detailing attacks on synagogues, a group of Jewish men in greater Washington is taking matters into its own hands.

05/14/2026

Last night, CTRI K9 Abby was on duty at the Israeli Embassy's Yom Ha'atzmaut gala in Washington, DC — Israel's 78th Independence Day.

Grateful for a moment Elan Carr, CEO of the Israeli American Council - IAC, and Leo Terrell, head of the DOJ's Task Force to Combat Antisemitism.

The community is stronger when we work together to protect it.

05/04/2026

Yesterday, our Guardians trained inside a local Jewish community facility — practicing how to respond to an active threat inside the spaces where our families pray, learn, and gather.

Training in our own spaces matters. Our Guardians learn the layouts, the entry points, the flow of people — the details that can only be understood by being there. That knowledge doesn't come from a generic training facility. It comes from being part of the community you're sworn to protect.

Our training program prepares Guardians with advanced skills so that when it matters most, they are ready to protect the people and places at the heart of our community.

These are members of our own community — training to protect our own. The focus and commitment they bring to every session cannot be taught. It can only come from people who understand what's at stake.

CTRI protects the Jewish community across the greater Washington DC region, including Maryland and Virginia. Support our mission: CTResponse.org/donate

04/19/2026

K9 Abby completed her first operational mission during Passover — a pre-event explosives sweep ahead of a program featuring an internationally recognized speaker operating under active threat. She's CTRI's newest capability, and she's already at work.

03/12/2026

We stand with the Temple Israel community in West Bloomfield, Michigan, following today’s attack at the synagogue.

We are grateful that no one inside the building was harmed and thankful for the security personnel and first responders who acted quickly to stop the attacker. More than one hundred children were in the building at the time.

Incidents like this are a sobering reminder of the threat environment facing Jewish institutions and the importance of preparedness.

Our thoughts are with the Temple Israel community tonight.

03/08/2026

It begins.

Today our first CTRI Guardian cohort begins training.

Ten members of our community have stepped forward to build the professional security capability our community deserves. This is the first step.

12/31/2025

Protecting Jewish life can’t rely on hope or improvisation.

It requires trained, licensed, insured members of our own community — prepared, accountable, and ready when needed.

That’s the model CTRI is building in the Greater Washington DC region.

As the year closes, our Protect Jewish Life campaign is helping complete the groundwork needed for sustainable, community-based security in 2026.

Before December 31, consider making a tax-deductible year-end gift to support this work.

Learn more or support the effort here:
👉 https://www.ctresponse.org/protect