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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 was completed in 1964. Leopold Meyer was a major donor and fundraiser for the Texas Children's Hospital .
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 ...
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.
The Holocaust Museum Houston is located in Houston's Museum District, in Texas.It is the fourth largest holocaust museum in the U.S. It was opened in 1996. [1]The Boniuk Center houses Holocaust Museum Houston's Education Department, including four classrooms, staff offices, storage rooms, and a library.
Based on his long interest in Texas Jewish history, in concert with colleagues and friends, Kessler founded the Texas Jewish Historical Society in March 1980. He was also elected the first and founding president. Today the society has grown to more 750 members and has sponsored and supported research for scholars and students of Texas Jewish ...
Organized by German Jewish immigrants in 1868, it is the oldest Reform congregation and the second chartered Jewish congregation in the state. [1] By the Galveston Movement, from 1907 to 1914, it helped attract thousands of eastern European Jewish immigrants to the city, Gulf Coast, and the middle region of the United States.
In 1908 the congregation moved into a new temple at Crawford at Lamar Street, in an area that was a Jewish community. [6] After the congregation left the Lamar site, the New Day Temple occupied it. As of 2016 The Grove at Discovery Green occupies the former Lamar site. [7] Maximilian Heller was rabbi of the congregation from 1886 to 1887. [8]
Congregation Beth Israel is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 3901 Shoal Creek Boulevard in Austin, Texas, in the United States.Organized in 1876 and chartered by the state of Texas in 1879, it is the oldest synagogue in Austin.