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In 1947, a member of the Jewish community in Dallas began printing the Texas Jewish Post. [5] In 1957 the temple moved to its present location in North Dallas. Architects Howard R. Meyer and Max M. Sandfield, with noted California architect William W. Wurster as consultant, received an Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects for the design of the present structure, which was ...
He also helped Baylor College of Medicine to move to Houston from Dallas in 1943. Taub founded a new public charity hospital which is known as Ben Taub hospital today. The Jewish community in 1958, decided to build a $450,000 Jewish Institute for Medical Research, which they donated to the Baylor College of Medicine when it
Levi Arthur Olan (March 22, 1903 – October 17, 1984) was an American Reform Jewish rabbi, liberal social activist, author, and professor. Born in Ukraine in 1903, he grew up in Rochester, New York and was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1929. He served as rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1929 to 1948, and Temple ...
Temple Emanu-El (Dallas) Temple Emanu-El is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 8500 Hillcrest Road, in Dallas, Texas, in the United States. Chartered as the Jewish Congregation Emanu-El in 1875, it was the first Reform congregation in North Texas, and is the largest synagogue in the South. The congregation is led by Rabbi David E. Stern.
David E. Stern. Rabbi David Eli Stern (born August 1961) is the senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, the largest synagogue in the South / Southwest United States and the third-largest in the Union for Reform Judaism. [ 1 ][ 2 ] He was selected as the 26th most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek magazine in 2008 [ 3 ] and the 30th ...
Yavneh Academy of Dallas. Coordinates: 32.9159°N 96.7717°W. Yavneh Academy of Dallas (now Akiba Yavneh Academy) is a coeducational, college preparatory Jewish private school in Dallas, Texas. It is guided by the tenets of Modern Orthodox Judaism. [1] In 2019, the school merged with Akiba Academy of Dallas (preschool through grade 8) to become ...
In 2005 Rabbi Schlesinger came to Dallas, Texas to serve as the head of the Community Kollel, and he spent eight years serving the Dallas Jewish community. When the Community Kollel folded in 2010, he founded the Jewish Studies Initiative of North Texas to continue the educational work he had been doing in the larger Jewish community of Dallas ...
David Lefkowitz. David Lefkowitz (April 11, 1875 – June 5, 1955) was a rabbi who led Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas from 1920 to 1949, after having worked at Temple Israel in Dayton, Ohio. [1] He opposed the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, [1] which had been revived in 1915; it was strongly opposed to immigrants from eastern and southern Europe ...