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The Jewish Herald-Voice is a weekly community newspaper serving the Jewish community of Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast for more than 115 years. The newspaper is the longest-running Jewish paper in the Southwest. [1] Commonly known as the JHV or The Herald, the newspaper has a readership of more than 40,000.
Wyatt is the daughter of Ann Baum Sakowitz (July 28, 1913 - January 18, 2010, San Antonio) and Bernard Sakowitz (1907 - 1981), a prominent couple in Houston's Jewish circles. [3] [4] [5] They were married in July 1933. [6] Ann was once in negotiations with Louis B. Meyer for a movie acting contract, but abandoned it on Bernard's objection. [6]
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 ...
He also served the Houston Jewish community as “rabbi-at-large” for the remainder of his life. On January 20, 1965, Rabbi Schachtel delivered the inaugural prayer for President Lyndon B. Johnson in Washington, D.C. [ 2 ] He was the author of several published works, including The Real Enjoyment of Living (1954), The Shadowed Valley (1962 ...
Jerry J. Moore (1927–2008), Houston-based r/e developer who became the largest shopping center developer in the U.S. in the late 1980s [109] [110] Stephen Muss (1928–), Florida-based developer known for re-development of Miami Beach, Florida [111] [112] Fred Ohebshalom (1952–), Iranian-born NYC-based developer, founder of Empire ...
Roy Mark Hofheinz (April 10, 1912 – November 22, 1982), popularly known as Judge Hofheinz or "The Judge", was a Texas state representative from 1935 to 1937 (44th legislature), county judge of Harris County, Texas from 1936 to 1944, and mayor of the city of Houston from 1953 to 1956.
Gerald Douglas Hines (August 15, 1925 – August 23, 2020) [1] was an American real estate developer based in Houston.He was the founder and chairman of Hines, a privately held real estate firm with its headquarters in that city.
Fayez Shalaby Sarofim (Coptic: ϥⲁⲉⲍ ⲥⲉⲣⲁⲫⲓⲙ, Egyptian Arabic: فايز صاروفيم ; 1929 – 27 May 2022) was an Egyptian Coptic-American heir to the Sarofim family fortune, a fund manager for three Dreyfus family stock funds, [1] the largest shareholder of Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) and part owner of the NFL team Houston Texans.