A network of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi expressed grief and solidarity with a Jewish congregation targeted by an arsonist earlier this month. He previously led Baptist churches in Kentucky and Arkansas and served Romani communities in Slovakia and Chechia as CBF field personnel. He remains jailed after pleading not guilty to a federal arson charge Jan. 20 at the U.S. courthouse in Jackson. “This hateful, antisemitic attack on the Beth Israel Congregation is disturbing and unacceptable,” said U.S. Attorney J.E. In 1967, the Ku Klux Klan firebombed the synagogue, which is the largest and oldest in in the state.