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Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America is an American Jewish volunteer women's organization. Founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, it is one of the largest international Jewish organizations, with nearly 300,000 members in the United States. [4] Hadassah fundraises for community programs and health initiatives in Israel, including ...
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 ...
The magazine annually awards the Ribalow Prize for a work of fiction on a Jewish theme. Books. Several collections of Hadassah articles were published as books. The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's Jewish Communities and Sights (1994) The Hadassah Magazine Jewish Parenting Book, edited by Roselyn Bell (Avon, 1991)
Freund-Rosenthal was born in Brooklyn on January 1, 1906, [contradictory] and reared in Harlem and Perth Amboy, New Jersey. [ 1] The child of Harry Kottler and Rebecca Zindler, a member of the first Zionist women’s group on the East Side, the Daughters of Zion. [ 2] She earned her bachelor's degree from Hunter College in 1925, and went on to ...
Wards of Houston. When the city of Houston was founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837, its founders— John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen —divided it into political geographic districts called "wards". [citation needed] The ward system, a precursor to today's City Council districts, was a common political tool of the early 19th ...
Coordinates: 29.6541°N 95.4522°W. Main entrance. Robert M. Beren Academy is a private Modern Orthodox Jewish primary and secondary school at 11333 Cliffwood Drive in Houston, Texas, United States . Robert M. Beren Academy is located near the Willow Meadows and Willowbend neighborhoods. The school covers preschool through grade 12 and includes ...
The Emery/Weiner School. The Emery/Weiner School (EWS) is a co-educational, independent Jewish day school in Houston, Texas, United States, [1] serving grades 6-12. The school is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest. The campus is located on 15 acres (61,000 m 2) of land, [citation needed] in Link Valley, [1] a ...
90001471 [1] Added to NRHP. September 18, 1990. The Houston City Hall building is the headquarters of the City of Houston 's municipal government. Constructed during 1938 and 1939, the City Hall complex is located on Bagby Street on the western side of Downtown Houston. It is surrounded by the Houston Skyline District and is similar in design ...