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Congregation Beth Israel is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 5600 North Braeswood Boulevard, in Houston, Texas, in the United States. The congregation, founded in 1854, is the oldest Jewish congregation in Texas; and it operates the Shlenker School.
After the 2011 Alexandria bombing in Egypt, Houston Coptic churches cancelled their Coptic Christmas services. [25] As of 2011, there were 58,200 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church) in Houston, with more than 1,000 new members joining per year. [26] The LDS Church has over 32 Spanish-speaking congregations in ...
Beth Yeshurun Day School was the first Jewish Day School in Texas, founded in 1949 under the leadership of Rabbi William S. Malev, the rabbi of the congregation at that time. [citation needed] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, as of 2022, more students attended Beth Yeshurun Day School than previously. An organization called Prizmah stated ...
Congregation B'nai Israel, Bridgeport; Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek, Chester; Congregation Knesseth Israel, Ellington; Congregation Ahavath Achim, Fairfield; Congregation Mishkan Israel, Hamden
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 ...
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The neighborhood is named after the Meyer family, who bought and owned 6,000 acres (24 km 2) of land in southwest Houston. Meyerland is the center of Houston's Jewish community; the Meyerland area is the home of Houston's Jewish Community Center, Congregation Beth Israel, Congregation Beth Yeshurun, and several smaller
When Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently visited Beijing, a debate erupted over whether China should deal with an “Old Jewish lady” who has a dual loyalty to the interests of the U.S ...