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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 ...
Many Jews, primarily from various German principalities, arrived in Dallas during a wave of mid-nineteenth century immigration to Texas following the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe. [2] Some of these Jews were "Forty-eighters" who had supported the revolutions. The city's first Jewish cemetery was established in 1854. [3]
New B'nai Israel Synagogue Beth Jacob Synagogue. In 1852, residents of Galveston established the first Jewish cemetery in Texas, with the first organized Jewish services being held in 1856. [4] During the American Civil War, although most residents had fled the city of Galveston, Rosanna Osterman remained.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By then, Israeli strikes on Gaza had killed at least 2,775 people and wounded 9,700, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and nearly two-thirds of those killed were children.