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A view of the burning Torah Vachesed synagogue in southwest Houston. (KTRK Houston via JTA)
November 29, 2018, 11:19 pm
Houston synagogue fire being investigated as arson
No one injured in blaze that broke out Wednesday at Torah Vachesed as dozens attended study session; 5 Torah scrolls rescued by firefighters
Dr. Joshua Furman is creating an archive of Houston's Jewish past in light of Hurricane Harvey. (Tracy Frydberg/Times of Israel)
June 26, 2018, 1:35 am
After Hurricane Harvey, Rice University preserves Houston’s Jewish past
With widespread devastation from the 2017 storm, Dr. Joshua Furman is launching a historical archive that will never be washed away
By Tracy Frydberg
The partially-demolished United Orthodox Synagogue sanctuary. (Tracy Frydberg/Times of Israel)
May 25, 2018, 9:57 pm
Months after Hurricane Harvey, Houston Jews fight to stay afloat
Ahead of the June flood season, leaders say traumatized community struggles emotionally and financially as many homes and institutions are still far from pre-storm condition
By Tracy Frydberg
A room in United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston stripped of its furniture and floors. (Courtesy of United Orthodox Synagogues via JTA)
February 1, 2018, 8:53 am
Houston synagogue flooded during hurricane votes to demolish damaged sanctuary
This is third year in a row that sanctuary, located in the flood-prone Meyerland neighborhood, had been hit with water damage
By JTA
Joel Osteen, pastor of the nation's largest megachurch, preaches at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, where services are broadcast around the world. (Frank E. Lockwood/Lexington Herald-Leader/MCT)
September 25, 2017, 6:49 am
Joel Osteen opens Houston megachurch to Jews whose synagogue was flooded
Televangelist came under fire during Harvey for not immediately opening building to shelter those displaced by the hurricane
By JTA
Piles of ruined books from United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston. The congregation lost many of its prayer books and replenished them through donations. (Courtesy of United Orthodox Synagogues via JTA)
September 19, 2017, 4:09 am
How Houston’s synagogues are handling the High Holidays after Harvey
Jewish houses of worship suffer flooding, million of dollars in damage, but community buoyed by donations, finding makeshift solutions
By Ben Sales
Avi Weiss
September 10, 2017, 3:54 pm
Avi Weiss
Floods cannot drown love
The remarkable volunteers who thronged to Houston after Harvey introduced a spark of the Divine
Staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. pack items to aid victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas. (Courtesy)
September 10, 2017, 3:44 pm
Israel approves $1 million in aid for Houston Jews
Diaspora minister says assistance will go to repairing Jewish schools, synagogues and JCC damaged by flooding from Harvey
By TOI staff
Jewish Agency emissaries assisting recovery efforts in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. (The Jewish Agency for Israel)
September 7, 2017, 10:20 am
Jewish students, Chabad rabbis, and kosher salami firm pitch in to help Houston
Taube Philanthropies grants $1 million for relief work; Abeles & Heymann deli company starts food aid drive
By JTA
Homes surrounded by floodwaters September 3, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)
September 4, 2017, 4:30 pm
Diaspora minister pushing $1 million aid package for Houston Jews
Naftali Bennett says assistance will go to repairing Jewish schools, synagogues and JCC damaged by flooding from Harvey
By TOI staff and Agencies
Jason Yustein and Gabi Moses hold their son Doran's hands during a Bar Mitzvah in the aftermath of Harvey Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
September 3, 2017, 9:38 pm
Teen’s bar mitzvah gives Houston a chance to commiserate, heal
Coming-of-age ceremony in the wake of Harvey’s catastrophic flooding is open to all at a time when ‘you need people to lift you up’
By JULIET LINDERMAN
Education Minister Naftali Bennett arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Ministers office in Jerusalem on July 30, 2017. (Ohad Zweigenberg/Pool)
August 30, 2017, 1:42 am
Bennett urges Israelis to help Jews in flood-hit Houston
‘For years the Jews of Houston were there for us; now we can be there for them,’ the Diaspora Affairs Minister writes
By TOI staff
B'nai Akiva emissary Rafi Engelhart sets out with a neighbor who is an EMT to rescue stranded Houstonians from Tropical Storm Harvey, August 27. (Courtesy)
August 29, 2017, 2:54 pm
Into the eye of the storm: The Jewish heroes of Hurricane Harvey
With floodwaters reaching second-story levels, 30,000 people displaced, and 100,000 without power, these are a few of the people who put themselves in danger to save lives
By Yaakov Schwartz
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