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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
They had invited Rabbi Jacobs of the New Orleans Portuguese Jewish Nefutzot Yehudah Congregation (later part of Touro Synagogue) to officiate; historians believe this was the first occasion when an ordained rabbi led a religious meeting in Texas. [1] The congregation continued to grow and, by the late 1880s, found they needed a new synagogue.
Egypt has reopened one of the world’s oldest synagogues and home to the most significant single trove of Jewish manuscripts.