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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The synagogue has served the Pasadena area for more than 100 years and moved to Altadena Drive in 1941, taking over a former warehouse space. ... Then he found his house had been destroyed — one ...
B'nai Abraham Synagogue (Brenham, Texas) This page was last edited on 20 June 2023, at 06:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Henry Gault, from whom the site takes its name, put together a 250-acre farm in the Buttermilk Creek Valley, starting in 1904. At some point in the early 20th century he found extra income as an informant for early archaeological explorations in Central Texas working with the first professional archaeologist in Texas, J.E. Pearce, as well as avocational archaeologists (Alex Dienst, Kenneth ...
A rabbi in the American army found an abandoned, dilapidated synagogue near Mosul dating back to the 13th century. [16] It is located 3.2 km (2 mi) northeast of Mosul, across the Tigris River, in a city called Nineveh, the city to which the prophet Jonah was sent to preach repentance. The Nineveh Synagogue was constructed by Daud Ibn Hodaya al ...