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Pages in category "Synagogues on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
These services would eventually lead to the founding of Texas' first and oldest Reform Jewish congregation, Temple B'nai Israel, in 1868. [4] The first synagogue in Texas, Congregation Beth Israel of Houston, was founded in Houston in 1859 as an Orthodox congregation. However, by 1874 the congregation voted to change their affiliation to the ...
Reform synagogues in Texas (8 P) S. Synagogues on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas (5 P) This page was last edited on 26 August 2021, at 11:01 ...
The 1870 building of Congregation B'nai Israel (Galveston, Texas) is the oldest synagogue building in Texas. It was rebuilt c.1890. [5] Temple Beth-El (San Antonio, Texas), founded in 1874, is the oldest congregation in South Texas. Congregation Beth Israel (Austin, TX) founded 1876.
In the wake of a deadly standoff at a Texas synagogue, the Torah’s requirement that Jews must open their doors to those in need has run headlong into the need Synagogues face a security ...
The Houston Jewish community is centered on Meyerland. As of 1987 Jews lived in many communities in Houston. [2] In 2008 Irving N. Rothman, author of The Barber in Modern Jewish Culture: A Genre of People, Places, and Things, with Illustrations, wrote that Houston "has a scattered Jewish populace and not a large enough population of Jews to dominate any single neighborhood" and that the city's ...
Temple Beth-El is an historic Reform Jewish former synagogue located at 208 South 15th Street in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, in the United States.Operating as a synagogue between 1898 and 1980, the exotic Moorish Revival-style building has been used as a community center since 1990.
The synagogue held its last service, led by Rabbi Jerome Cohen, in 2002. [6] Worship services began in about 1899. [1] The Shearith Israel synagogue building (built in 1956) was destroyed by a fire intentionally set by two local teenagers, on Sunday, September 26, 2010 (the third day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, also known as the Feast of ...