By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Law enforcement was completely cooperative but the threats were of a nature that required cancellation,” wrote David Friedman, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, who was slated to speak at the event.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Texas will always stand with the State of Israel and the Israeli people,” said Gov. Greg Abbott.
By Eve Glover
Residents of Colleyville are still shaken up from the terror attack in January,
The brothers Samuel and Joseph Schutz were among the first Jews to arrive in the area in 1856.
We are just 2 percent of the U.S. population, but 58 percent of religiously motivated hate crimes are against Jews,” said Michael Masters of the Secure Community Network.
Hate crime statistics show that crimes targeting Jews comprised 54.9% of all crimes against a religious minority.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Frederick Barrett Sechreist of San Marcos, Texas, was seen on video carrying a gas canister outside of Congregation Beth Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under Chapter 808, state law prohibits companies from refusing, terminating business or taking “any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on or limit commercial relations” with Israel.
Amid an arctic freeze, members of the Lone Star State opened doors to friends without power, cooked meals, arranged for medication pickups for the homebound, and, in one extreme case, mobilized to ensure that hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccines would not go to waste.
By JNi.Media
The new ranking is one spot up from last year, while TAU remains the only non-American university in PitchBook's top ten.
By JNi.Media
In 2014, Dell donated $1.8 million to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
By Chabad.org
“It was really hashgacha pratis [divine providence] because we had all this food, a lot more supplies than we usually have on hand, so we were able to make dinner” for many more people."
By JNi.Media
Miriam Ballin, a native of Houston and the Director of United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit leads the mission.
By JNi.Media
"As the extent of the damage becomes clear, it is obvious that this community will need significant financial help in order to rebuild."
Reports of 1 dead and 3 wounded.
Ira and Rod discuss the current situation taking place in the U.S. in the aftermath of police shootings in several states and the attack on police officers in Dallas, Texas.
By JNi.Media
Images portray Noah’s ark and animals, chaotic parting of Red Sea
Alan Weinkratz was a well-known figure in the Israeli hi-tech startup scene.
By JNi.Media
While flying a combat mission over Serbia in 1999, Goldfein was shot down when his F-16 was hit by a surface-air-missile.
By JNi.Media
“To some degree it’s a chicken and an egg problem,” Texas A&M’s vice provost Michael Benedik said. “Why would we be getting a major gift to open a campus when we don’t have legal permission to even do it?”
The official limit on the high-speed highway will be 75 miles an hour, but police let drivers off the hook up to 80 MPH.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Clare Freeman, head of the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce, says there is plenty of money to be made in the Israeli energy industry.
Joshua Ryne Goldberg is 20 years old, Jewish, an Internet troll, poses as an ISIS supporter, and now faces up to s 20 years in jail.
By JNi.Media
Hundreds of cyclists are expected to participate in the tenth annual Tour de Tolerance, to raise money for the El Paso Holocaust Museum in Texas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Orthodox Union, B'nai Brith and the Houston Federation are pitching in.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The largest oil and gas conference in the world, known as the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) was held this week and 14 Israeli companies were present.
"We tell America that what is coming is more bitter and harder."
He turned down a chance to try to assassinate Obama.
The first of 2 nurses to contract Ebola in Texas has been cured. NY and NJ have begun quarantining health-care workers returning from West Africa.
Mexico refuses to let a Carnival Cruise ship with 4000 passengers dock after a Texas lab technician entered a voluntary quarantine on-board ship after handling Ebola infected fluids.
Officials plead with Americans not to panic.
The free-spirted lifestyle didn’t hold your interest; the needs of your people did.
Pro-Israel figures insisted that the younger generation’s shift from a pro-Israel stand is nothing to panic about — yet.
By JTA
A Dallas-area rabbi who uses his home as a synagogue is being sued by a neighbor who says it has lowered his property values. Rabbi Yaakov Rich told the local Fox affiliate Fox4 in a video posted Wednesday that his 3,700-square-foot home is a synagogue with about 25 members. A website identifies his synagogue as […]
By JTA
Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry, in what observers see as a move signaling a possible White House run, said he is planning to visit Israel in October. Perry, who has announced that he will not run for a fourth term as Texas governor, told the Washington Times in an interview last Friday, “We will be […]
A Texas state official spoke at a Memorial Day service and quoted a Jewish chaplain’s dedication of a temporary cemetery on Iwo Jima in World War II. Jerry Patterson, the state’s Land Commissioner and candidate for Lieutenant Governor, said that whenever he speaks at a Memorial Day service, he quotes Lt. Roland B Gittlesohn, a […]