While there, he coordinated volunteers for the soup kitchen and store, counseled, and worked as an event organizer.

[2] In 2006, he became the first full-time rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.

[2] A proponent of interfaith dialogue, in 2009, he participated in an exchange with a priest from a local Catholic congregation.

[6][7][8][9][10] Cytron-Walker had taken courses for a number of years through the FBI, the Anti-Defamation League, the Colleyville Police Department, and Secure Community Network in order to prepare for the possibility of an intruder.

Cytron-Walker credited the information learned in the courses with saving the hostages' lives.

[5] In February 2022, Temple Emanuel congregants in Winston-Salem, North Carolina voted to hire Cytron-Walker.

[11][5] Cytron-Walker is married to the former Adena Cytron,[12] a diversity management professional, with whom he has two daughters.