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The center was located in the Dallas Jewish Community Center in North Dallas. [7] In January 2005, the Memorial Center changed its name to the Dallas Holocaust Museum Center for Education and Tolerance and moved to a transitional space in downtown Dallas. The Museum is now in a 55,000-square-foot permanent location at the former Kingman-Texas ...
Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. "Dallas." Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Kerry M. Olitzky, Marc Lee Raphael. The American synagogue: a historical dictionary and sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, page 340 (retrieved 2011-08-22). ISBN 0-313-28856-9, ISBN 978-0-313-28856-2.
Judge Roy Bean's first act as Justice of the Peace was to "shoot [...] up the saloon shack of a Jewish competitor". [7] Judge Roy Bean then turned the tent saloon into a part-time courtroom, pronounced his own innocence, and began calling himself the "Law West of the Pecos". During the early 1920s the Ku Klux Klan became influential in Texas.
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) is a 501(c)(3) [4] nonprofit organization founded by Kenneth L. Marcus in 2012 with the stated purpose of advancing the civil and human rights of the Jewish people and promoting justice for all peoples. [5]
The Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law organizes conferences, publishes texts, and supports travel and research by graduate students and senior scholars in the fields of Jewish law, legal and political theory, and ethics.
Temple Emanu-El of Dallas was founded in 1873 and chartered in 1875. It was renamed from the Jewish Congregation Emanu-El to Temple Emanu-El Congregation in 1974. The small but growing Jewish community sought a permanent religious structure as well as for a rabbi to conduct services and to offer religious education for children, so several ...
In 1982 Swift’s husband Dennis and his law partner Elliott Garsek, grandson of Dave Carshon, bought the deli and for several years expanded it into a wine bar. In 2005, the Swifts became full ...
The Beth Din of America is a Beth Din (Court of Jewish Law) which serves Jews throughout the United States of America as a forum for arbitrating disputes through the din torah process, obtaining Jewish divorces, and confirming Jewish personal status issues. [1] It was founded in 1960 and reconstituted in 1994. [2]