(JTA) — A Houston imam walked back a sermon in which he called for Muslims to kill Jews without specifically apologizing for his comments. Imam Raed Saleh Al-Rousan of Houston’s Tajweed Institute earlier this month delivered what he called an “impassioned sermon,” according to a statement about the speech issued on Wednesday. “I unequivocally affirm…
(JTA) — As Hurricane Harvey swept over Houston, Chava Gal-Or counted herself lucky. The water rose up to her door and a little bit seeped in, but her home did not flood. However, many in the Reform synagogue where she works had it much worse: Twenty-nine families lost their homes — about 15 percent of…
Houston’s plan to rebuild after the devastation of Hurricane Harvey includes a proposal that may break up the city’s tight-knit Jewish community. Stephen Costello, the city’s “flood czar” responsible for planning how to rebuild and mitigate future storm damage, is weighing a proposal to buy out thousands of damaged homes in flood-prone areas and replace…
Axelrad’s, a Houston beer garden with Jewish roots, will be hosting a Yom Kippur break fast on Saturday night for the city’s Jewish community – battered like other residents after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey. “Hurricane Harvey really threw us for a loop! As we recover and rebuild, we want to recognize and cherish…
Some say the first American Jews were Texans, thought to have entered the New World in the 1500s alongside conquistadors headed for New Spain. They were possibly killed by the Spanish or left to explore new lands, or absorbed into the ranks of crypto-Jewry, forgotten by historical record. Their successors, now one of the oldest…
A few weeks ago, Holly Davies was getting ready to homeschool her kids and preparing the family for the High Holidays. When Hurricane Harvey hit, she helped evacuate 150 people from her neighborhood by airboat and shelter nearly 100 people in a local church. Then came the hard part. For the past three weeks, Davies…
Anti-Semitic flyers and stickers were found at the University of Houston last week, the latest in what is a broad campus outreach campaign mounted by white supremacist groups ahead of the new school year. The flyers were found on at the university’s main campus on Tuesday, the Algemeiner reported, and included phrases like, “Beware the…
(JTA) — A woman from Texas was asked to stop volunteering at a local church food pantry after it was discovered that she was both Jewish and lesbian. Carmen Hix wrote in a post on Facebook on Sept. 8 that she took a week off of work and donated over $500 worth of food to…
דער זשורנאַל, גרויס ווי אַ גאַנץ בוך, נעמט אויך אַרײַן טײַגע־לידער און פֿאַקטאַזיע־ווערק.
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