West Houston B’nai B’rith Lodge gives donation to Books Between KidsMembers of the West Houston Lodge of B’nai B’rith met Sunday, Oct. 26, at Belmont Village in Bellaire to hear speaker Kayla Hand, executive director of Books Between Kids. Read more » »

A friend in need is a friend in ‘deed’ For many people, the holidays mean family, friends, religious traditions and celebrations and good food and gifts. This time of year, it’s often a different story for individuals and families who are unhoused and living in a shelter. Their holidays can be a difficult, disappointing and sad time. Read more » »

The Houston Jewish Community Foundation recently distributed more than $215,000 in grants to 21 organizations across the Houston Jewish community to support programs that touch every generation. Among the organizations receiving awards are Yeshiva Torat Emet, Robert M. Read more » »

Sales benefit residents of Seven Acres, The Medallion The Hebrew Order of David’s two Houston lodges, Lodge Galil and Lodge Tikvah, will be selling Roses for Rosh Hashanah. The program benefits residents of Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services and The Medallion. Read more » »

Bellaire High School senior Levi Fox has become BBYO’s first elected international president from Houston in more than 20 years. Fox was elected as the 98th Grand Aleph Godol on Sunday, Feb. 20, in Baltimore, and will serve for the next year as the teen president of the Aleph Zadik Aleph. Read more » »

Annette (Nettie) Sterman Schwartz, age 98, loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, died peacefully at her home on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. Annette was born on Aug. 21, 1923, in Buffalo, N.Y., to Pearl and Nathan Sterman. In June 1945, she became engaged to the love of her life, Robert (Bob) Schwartz after meeting him at a B’nai B’rith dance. Read more » »

Thanks to the Hebrew Order of David, Roses for Rosh Hashanah was a tremendous success. Roses for Rosh Hashanah is a rebirth of a very successful program from more than 30 years ago. Read more » »

No mere candles and cake for Eunice Harris Reiter’s 83rd birthday. The Dallas native and Houston-area retired accountant jumped out of an airplane in a once-in-a-lifetime skydiving lark. “Where my partner Fernando went, I went,” Reiter said of the professional instructor from Skydive Spaceland in Rosharon, near Houston. Read more » »

From 1992: Barry M. Lewis, Malcolm P. Slatko, Max Goldfield and Mark Katzenellenbogen. Back in the ‘90s a B’nai B’rith volunteer and Seven Acres supporter coordinated a program during the High Holy Days that benefited the residents of Seven Acres. The driving force behind that program was Max Goldfield. Read more » »

After Alice Lok Cahana was deported to Auschwitz, she made a promise to herself. If she survived, she swore to transform her Shoah experiences into a visual reality. Lok did survive. After the war, she met and married Rabbi Moshe Cahana. She moved to Houston in 1959 when her husband became the rabbi at Congregation Brith Shalom. Read more » »