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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 ...
Some of these Jews were "Forty-eighters" who had supported the revolutions. The city's first Jewish cemetery was established in 1854. [3] At this point in time, the small but growing Jewish community wanted to establish permanent religious structure and engage a Rabbi in order to conduct services and offer religious education for children.
In 1862 she opened her home as a hospital, treating first Union soldiers and then extending her care to Confederate soldiers. [5] Congregation B'nai Israel opened in 1868. The congregation was the first Jewish Reform congregation chartered in Texas, and only the second Jewish congregation founded in the state. [4]
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott left for Israel Wednesday for a brief "solidarity mission." The trip, coordinated by the Israel Consulate's office in Houston and by the ...
Congregation B'nai Israel (Hebrew: בני ישראל, lit. 'Sons of Israel') is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located in Galveston, Texas , in the United States. Organized by German Jewish immigrants in 1868, it is the oldest Reform congregation and the second chartered Jewish congregation in the state.
The Central Texas Jewish community came together Sunday at the Texas State Capitol to raise their voices in support of Jewish college students across the nation after two weeks of pro-Palestinian ...
Layal called for an immediate cease-fire and the retraction of Israeli settlements, and a return to the boundaries established by the Balfour Declaration in 1917. "I lost family in Gaza," Afana said.
The offer was first made by British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain to Theodore Herzl's Zionist group in 1903. He offered 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2) of the Mau Escarpment in what is today Kenya. The offer was a response to pograms in Russia, and it was hoped the area could be a refuge from persecution for the Jewish people.