This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Rosh Hashanah Signals New Year and Shofar Call
The Jewish High Holiday begins tonight with the shofar blast as a call to repentance and the start of the Ten Days of Repentance leading to Yom Kippur. Baytown’s Jewish history centers on early families, Congregation K nesseth Israel, and the damaged 2008 Ike era synagogue restoration.
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Baytown
Goose Creek
Congregation
K’nesseth Israel
Houston
Lenard Gabert
Jewish Community Center
Donald L. Teter
Teter