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Jews and Jewish life

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

American Associates Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Greater Texas Region programs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 793
Overview The American Associates Ben-Gurion University of the Negev programs offer unique insight into the global connections of Jewish culture and tradition with their extension of the Israeli university community into the Greater Texas Region, acknowledgement of influential figures, and exploration of kosher food.
Dates: 2013 - 2018

AMIT [Americans for Israel and Torah] Pearl Schwartz-Houston Chapter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 792
Overview The AMIT collection is made up of six membership directories, each containing a brief history and statement of purpose, officer list, membership list, and advertisements from local businesses put out annually by the Pearl Schwartz-Houston Chapter of the leading education network across all measurements in Israel, Americans for Israel and Torah.
Dates: 2003-2008

Chabad of Houston collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 833
Overview The Chabad of Houston collection contains materials related to the institution’s many programs, its history, and especially the galas and events celebrating the impact the Chabad has had on the Houston Jewish community.
Dates: 1990 - 2016

Houston Hadassah collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 775
Overview This collection consists of two boxes of membership directories from 1955 to 1965 and 1993 to 2002 and two scrapbooks that span the years 1970 to 1976 and one scrapbook from 1981 to 1983 that include newsletters, event invitations, news clippings, marketing material, photographs, and memorabilia.
Dates: 1955 - 2002

Jewish Family Service records [Houston]

 Collection
Identifier: MS 785
Overview This collection contains programs, pamphlets, photographs, speeches, correspondence, compact discs, administrative records, and newsletters that document part of the history of Jewish Family Service - Houston from 1947 to 2015, including oral history interviews conducted with former staff and board members.
Dates: 2008-2015

Jewish Herald-Voice Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 781
Overview This collection contains issues of the Jewish Herald-Voice, as well as related correspondence, newsprint and articles, photographs, and a Directory of Jewish Organizations showcasing different aspects of the Jewish community and smaller groups that make it up. "Representing the great and powerful diversity of [the Houston and Texas Gulf Coast Jewish communities,] the Herald unites many thoughts in its weekly pages" (Newspaper owners Samuels and Levy).
Dates: 1928 - 2008

Meyerland Minyan collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 790
Overview The Meyerland Minyan collection is made up of five anniversary programs which contain historical details of the Minyan community at different points in time.
Dates: 2007 - 2014

Seven Acres/Jewish Home for the Aged records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 786
Overview The Seven Acres Records contain newsletters and a gala program showcasing programs and events for the aged, offering a glimpse of elderly care in the Houston Jewish community.
Dates: 1991 - 2015

Young Israel of Houston programs

 Collection
Identifier: MS 791
Overview The Young Israel Houston collection is made up of seven anniversary programs which contain historical details of the Jewish community at different points in time.
Dates: 2004 - 2012