“We’ll be together in our spiritual home,' said Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker. “That goes a long way.”
Now, members of the Texas congregation are returning to the building to worship once again. “We’ll be together in our spiritual home," said Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker. “That goes a long way.”
This Reform Jewish congregation was launched in 1998 as a Chavurah, usually lay-led, non-institutional group of Jews who regularly meet to study, pray or learn Jewish topics. Eisen,focused on Semitism and the Holocaust, said she and other families created Beth Israel because “we just felt we needed a place for our children who were a minority in schools to meet other Jewish children who weren’t 45 miles away.
For the last few months, the congregation has leaned on a nearby church where they’ve been holding their services.
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