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- [Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18 - 21:9)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/08/shoftim-deuteronomy-1618-219-2/) - You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that your God יהוה is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice. You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the
- [Re'eh (Deuteronomy (11:26-16:17)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/08/reeh-deuteronomy-1126-1617-2/) - See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of your God יהוה that I enjoin upon you this day; and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of your God יהוה, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow
- [Eikev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/07/eikev-deuteronomy-712-1125-2/) - And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, your God יהוה will maintain faithfully for you the covenant made on oath with your fathers: [God] will favor you and bless you and multiply you—blessing your issue from the womb and your produce from the soil, your new grain and wine and oil,
- [Vaetchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/07/vaetchanan-deuteronomy-323-711-3/) - I pleaded with יהוה at that time, saying, “O Lord יהוה, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal! Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side
- [Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1 - 3:22)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/07/devarim-deuteronomy-11-322-2/) - These are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan.—Through the wilderness, in the Arabah near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab, it is eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the Mount Seir route. — It was in the fortieth year, on the first
- [Matot-Massei (Numbers 30:2-36:13)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/07/matot-massei-numbers-3023613/) - Matot Moses spoke to the heads of the Israelite tribes, saying: This is what יהוה has commanded: If a householder makes a vow to יהוה or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall not break his pledge; he must carry out all that has crossed his lips. If a woman makes a
- [Pinchas (Numbers 25:10 - 30:1)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/07/pinchas-numbers-2510-301-3/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying, “Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion for Me, so that I did not wipe out the Israelite people in My passion. Say, therefore, ‘I grant him My pact of friendship. It shall be
- [Chukat-Balak (Numbers 19:1-25:9)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/06/chukat-balak-numbers-191-259/) - Chukat יהוה spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: This is the ritual law that יהוה has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid. You shall give it to Eleazar the priest. It shall be taken
- [Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/06/korach-numbers-161-1832-2/) - Now Korah, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, betook himself, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—descendants of Reuben — to rise up against Moses, together with two hundred and fifty Israelites, chieftains of the community, chosen in the assembly, men of repute. They combined against
- [Shelach (Numbers 13:1 - 15:41)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/06/shelach-numbers-131-1541/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying, “Send agents to scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelite people; send one participant from each of their ancestral tribes, each one a chieftain among them.” So Moses, by יהוה’s command, sent them out from the wilderness of Paran, all of them being men of
- [Beha'alotekha (Numbers 8:1-12:16)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/06/behaalotecha-numbers-81-1216/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and say to him, “When you mount the lamps, let the seven lamps give light at the front of the lampstand.” Aaron did so; he mounted the lamps at the front of the lampstand, as יהוה had commanded Moses.— Now this is how the lampstand was made:
- [Nasso (Numbers 4:21-7:89)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/05/naso-numbers-421-789-2/) - יהוה spoke to Moses: Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral house and by their clans. Record them from the age of thirty years up to the age of fifty, all who are subject to service in the performance of tasks for the Tent of Meeting. These are the duties of the
- [Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/05/bamidbar-numbers-11-420/) - On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, יהוה spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying: Take a census of the whole Israelite company [of fighters] by the clans of its ancestral houses, listing the names,
- [Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/05/behar-bechukotai-leviticus-251-2734/) - Behar יהוה spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of יהוה. Six years you may sow your field and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather in the yield.
- [Emor (Leviticus 21:1-24:23)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/04/emor-leviticus-211-2423-2/) - יהוה said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: None shall defile himself for any [dead] person among his kin, except for the relatives that are closest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother; also for a virgin sister, close to him
- [Acharei-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1-20:27)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/04/acharei-kedoshim-leviticus-161-2027-2/) - Acharei יהוה spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they drew too close to the presence of יהוה. יהוה said to Moses: Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come at will into the Shrine behind the curtain, in front of the cover that is
- [Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12:1-15:33)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/04/tazria-metzora-leviticus-121-1533/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be impure seven days; she shall be impure as at the time of her condition of menstrual separation.— On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.— She shall remain in
- [Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/04/shemini-leviticus-91-1147/) - On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel. He said to Aaron: “Take a calf of the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and bring them before יהוה. And speak to the Israelites, saying: Take a he-goat for a sin
- [Tzav (Leviticus 6:1 - 8:36)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/03/tzav-leviticus-61-836/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: Command Aaron and his sons thus: This is the ritual of the burnt offering: The burnt offering itself shall remain where it is burned upon the altar all night until morning, while the fire on the altar is kept going on it. The priest shall dress in linen raiment, with
- [Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1-5:26)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/03/vayikra-leviticus-11-526-2/) - יהוה called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying: Speak to the Israelite people, and say to them: When any of you presents an offering of cattle to יהוה: You shall choose your offering from the herd or from the flock. If your offering is a burnt offering from the
- [Vayakhel-Pekudei (Exodus 35:1-40:38)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/03/vayakhel-pekudei-exodus-351-4038/) - Moses then convoked the whole Israelite community and said to them: These are the things that יהוה has commanded you to do: On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a sabbath of complete rest, holy to יהוה; whoever does any work on it shall be put to
- [Ki Tisa (Exodus 30:11 - 34:35)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/03/ki-tisa-exodus-3011-3435/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: When you take a census of the Israelite men according to their army enrollment, each shall pay יהוה a ransom for himself on being enrolled, that no plague may come upon them through their being enrolled. This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay: a half-shekel
- [Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/02/tetzaveh-exodus-2720-3010-2/) - You shall further instruct the Israelites to bring you clear oil of beaten olives for lighting, for kindling lamps regularly. Aaron and his sons shall set them up in the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain which is over [the Ark of] the Pact, [to burn] from evening to morning before יהוה. It shall be
- [Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/02/terumah-exodus-251-2719/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts; you shall accept gifts for Me from every person whose heart is so moved. And these are the gifts that you shall accept from them: gold, silver, and copper; blue, purple, and crimson yarns, fine linen, goats’ hair; tanned ram skins, dolphin
- [Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/02/yitro-exodus-181-2023/) - Jethro priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, God’s people, how יהוה had brought Israel out from Egypt. So Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after she had been sent home, and her two sons—of whom one was named Gershom, that is to say, “I
- [Bo (Exodus 10:1 - 13:16)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/01/bo-exodus-101-1316/) - Then יהוה said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I may display these My signs among them, and that you may recount in the hearing of your child and of your child’s child how I made a mockery of the Egyptians
- [Vaera (Exodus 6:2-9:35)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/01/vaera-exodus-62-935/) - God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am יהוה. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, but I did not make Myself known to them by My name יהוה. I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as
- [Shemot (Exodus 1:1 - 6:1)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/01/shemot-exodus-11-61/) - These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. The total number of persons that were of Jacob’s issue came to seventy, Joseph being already in Egypt. Joseph died,
- [Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2026/01/vayechi-genesis-4728-5026-2/) - Jacob lived seventeen years in the land of Egypt, so that the span of Jacob’s life came to one hundred and forty-seven years. And when the time approached for Israel to die, he summoned his son Joseph and said to him, “Do me this favor, place your hand under my thigh as a pledge of
- [Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/12/vayigash-genesis-4418-4727/) - Then Judah went up to him and said, “Please, my lord, let your servant appeal to my lord, and do not be impatient with your servant, you who are the equal of Pharaoh. My lord asked his servants, ‘Have you a father or another brother?’ We told my lord, ‘We have an old father, and
- [Miketz (Genesis 44:1-44:17)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/12/miketz-genesis-441-4417/) - After two years’ time, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, when out of the Nile there came up seven cows, handsome and sturdy, and they grazed in the reed grass. But presently, seven other cows came up from the Nile close behind them, ugly and gaunt, and stood beside the cows on
- [Vayeshev (Genesis 37:01-40:23)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/12/vayeshev-genesis-3701-4023/) - Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. This, then, is the line of Jacob: At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended the flocks with his brothers, as a helper to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. And Joseph brought bad reports of them
- [Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4-36:43)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/12/vayishlach-genesis-324-3643/) - Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, and instructed them as follows, “Thus shall you say, ‘To my lord Esau, thus says your servant Jacob: I stayed with Laban and remained until now; I have acquired cattle, asses, sheep, and male and female slaves; and
- [Vayeitzei (Genesis 28:10-32:3)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/11/vayetzei-genesis-2810-323-2/) - Jacob left Beer-sheba, and set out for Haran. He came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. He had a dream; a stairway was set on the
- [Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28-9)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/11/toldot-genesis-2519-28-9/) - This is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac. Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. Isaac pleaded with יהוה on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and יהוה responded to his plea, and
- [Chayyei Sara (Genesis 23:1-25:18)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/11/chayei-sara-genesis-231-2518-2/) - Sarah’s lifetime—the span of Sarah’s life—came to one hundred and twenty-seven years. Sarah died in Kiriath-arba—now Hebron—in the land of Canaan; and Abraham proceeded to mourn for Sarah and to bewail her. Then Abraham rose from beside his dead, and spoke to the Hittites, saying, “I am a resident alien among you; sell me a
- [Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/11/vayera-genesis-181-2224-2/) - יהוה appeared to him by the terebinths of Mamre; he was sitting at the entrance of the tent as the day grew hot. Looking up, he saw three figures standing near him. Perceiving this, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them and, bowing to the ground, he said, “My lords! If
- [Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1 - 17:27)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/10/lech-lecha-genesis-121-1727-2/) - יהוה said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you
- [Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/10/noach-genesis-69-1132-2/) - This is the line of Noah.—Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.— Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth became corrupt before God; the earth was filled with lawlessness. When God saw how corrupt the earth was, for all flesh had corrupted its ways
- [Bereshit (Genesis 1:1 - 6:8)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/10/bereshit-genesis-11-68/) - When God began to create heaven and earth - the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water— God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from
- [V'Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/10/vzot-haberachah-deuteronomy-331-3412-2/) - This is the blessing with which Moses, God’s agent, bade the Israelites farewell before he died. He said: יהוה came from Sinai, And shone upon them from Seir; [God] appeared from Mount Paran, And approached from Ribeboth-kodesh, Lightning flashing at them from [God’s] right. Lover, indeed, of the people, Their hallowed are all in Your
- [Ha'azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-52)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/09/haazinu-deuteronomy-321-52/) - Give ear, O heavens, let me speak; Let the earth hear the words I utter! May my discourse come down as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, Like showers on young growth, Like droplets on the grass. For the name of יהוה I proclaim; Give glory to our God! The Rock!—whose deeds are
- [Vayeilech (Deuteronomy 31:1-30)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/09/vayelech-deuteronomy-311-30/) - Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel. He said to them: I am now one hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer be active. Moreover, יהוה has said to me, “You shall not go across yonder Jordan.” It is indeed your God יהוה who will cross over before you, and who
- [Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/09/nitzavim-deuteronomy-299-3020/) - You stand this day, all of you, before your God יהוה —your tribal heads, your elders, and your officials, every householder in Israel, your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer— to enter into the covenant of your God יהוה, which your God יהוה is concluding with you this
- [Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/09/ki-tavo-deuteronomy-261-298-2/) - When you enter the land that your God יהוה is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that your God יהוה is giving you, put it in a basket and go to
- [Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/09/ki-teitzei/) - When you [an Israelite warrior] take the field against your enemies, and your God יהוה delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her [into your household] as your wife, you shall bring her into
- [Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18 - 21:9)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/08/shoftim-deuteronomy-1618-219/) - You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that your God יהוה is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice. You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the
- [Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/08/reeh-deuteronomy-1126-1617/) - See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of your God יהוה that I enjoin upon you this day; and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of your God יהוה, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow
- [Va'etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/08/vaetchanan-deuteronomy-323-711-2/) - I pleaded with יהוה at that time, saying, “O Lord יהוה, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal! Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side
- [Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/07/devarim-deuteronomy-11-322/) - These are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan.—Through the wilderness, in the Arabah near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab, it is eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the Mount Seir route. — It was in the fortieth year, on the first
- [Matot-Masei (Numbers 30:2=36:13)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/07/matot-masei-numbers-3023613/) - Moses spoke to the heads of the Israelite tribes, saying: This is what יהוה has commanded: If a householder makes a vow to יהוה or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall not break his pledge; he must carry out all that has crossed his lips. If a woman makes a vow
- [Pinchas (Numbers 25:10-30:1)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/07/pinchas-numbers-2510-301-2/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying, “Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion for Me, so that I did not wipe out the Israelite people in My passion. Say, therefore, ‘I grant him My pact of friendship. It shall be
- [Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/07/balak-numbers-222-259/) - Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. Moab was alarmed because that people was so numerous. Moab dreaded the Israelites, and Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this horde will lick clean all that is about us as an ox licks up the grass of the field.”
- [Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/06/chukat-numbers-191-221/) - יהוה spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: This is the ritual law that יהוה has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid. You shall give it to Eleazar the priest. It shall be taken outside
- [Korach (Numbers 16:1-18:32)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/06/korach-numbers-161-1832/) - Now Korah, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, betook himself, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—descendants of Reuben — to rise up against Moses, together with two hundred and fifty Israelites, chieftains of the community, chosen in the assembly, men of repute. They combined against
- [Sh'lach (Numbers 13:1-15:41)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/06/shlach-numbers-131-1541/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying, “Send agents to scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelite people; send one participant from each of their ancestral tribes, each one a chieftain among them.” So Moses, by יהוה’s command, sent them out from the wilderness of Paran, all of them being men of
- [Beha'alotekha (Numbers 8:1 -12:16)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/06/behaalotcha-numbers-81-1216/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and say to him, “When you mount the lamps, let the seven lamps give light at the front of the lampstand.” Aaron did so; he mounted the lamps at the front of the lampstand, as יהוה had commanded Moses.— Now this is how the lampstand was made:
- [Naso (Numbers 4:21-7:89)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/06/naso-numbers-421-789/) - יהוה spoke to Moses: Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral house and by their clans. Record them from the age of thirty years up to the age of fifty, all who are subject to service in the performance of tasks for the Tent of Meeting. These are the duties of the
- [Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1 - 4:20)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/05/bamidbar-numbers-11-120/) - On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, יהוה spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying: Take a census of the whole Israelite company [of fighters] by the clans of its ancestral houses, listing the names,
- [Behar - Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/05/behar-bechukotai-leviticus-251-27-34/) - BEHAR יהוה spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of יהוה. Six years you may sow your field and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather in the yield.
- [Emor (Leviticus 21:1 - 24:23)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/05/emor-leviticus-211-2423/) - יהוה said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: None shall defile himself for any [dead] person among his kin, except for the relatives that are closest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother; also for a virgin sister, close to him
- [Acharei-Kedoshim (Leviticus 16:1-20:27)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/05/acharei-kedoshim-leviticus-161-2027/) - Achrei Mot יהוה spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they drew too close to the presence of יהוה. יהוה said to Moses: Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come at will into the Shrine behind the curtain, in front of the cover that
- [Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12:1 - 15:33)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/05/tazria-metzora/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be impure seven days; she shall be impure as at the time of her condition of menstrual separation.— On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.— She shall remain in
- [Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1 - 5:26)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/04/vayikra-leviticus-11-526/) - יהוה called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying: Speak to the Israelite people, and say to them: When any of you presents an offering of cattle to יהוה: You shall choose your offering from the herd or from the flock. If your offering is a burnt offering from the
- [Vayakhel (Exodus 35:1 - 38:20)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/03/vayakhel-exodus-351-3820/) - Moses then convoked the whole Israelite community and said to them: These are the things that יהוה has commanded you to do: On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a sabbath of complete rest, holy to יהוה; whoever does any work on it shall be put to
- [Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20 - 30:10)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/03/tetzaveh-exodus-2720-3010/) - You shall further instruct the Israelites to bring you clear oil of beaten olives for lighting, for kindling lamps regularly. Aaron and his sons shall set them up in the Tent of Meeting, outside the curtain which is over [the Ark of] the Pact, [to burn] from evening to morning before יהוה. It shall be
- [Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1 -24:18)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/02/mishpatim-exodus-211-2418/) - These are the rules that you shall set before them: When you acquire a Hebrew slave, that person shall serve six years—and shall go free in the seventh year, without payment. If [a male slave] came single, he shall leave single; if he had a wife, his wife shall leave with him. If his master
- [Yitro (Exodus 18:1 - 27)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/02/yitro-exodus-181-27/) - Jethro priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, God’s people, how יהוה had brought Israel out from Egypt. So Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after she had been sent home, and her two sons—of whom one was named Gershom, that is to say, “I
- [Beshalach (Exodus 13:17 - 17:16)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/02/beshalach-exodus-1317-1716/) - Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although it was nearer; for God said, “The people may have a change of heart when they see war, and return to Egypt.” So God led the people round about, by way of the wilderness
- [Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/01/bo/) - Then יהוה said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I may display these My signs among them, and that you may recount in the hearing of your child and of your child’s child how I made a mockery of the Egyptians
- [Vaera](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/01/vaera/) - God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am יהוה. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as El Shaddai, but I did not make Myself known to them by My name יהוה. I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as
- [Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2025/01/vayechi-genesis-4728-5026/) - Jacob lived seventeen years in the land of Egypt, so that the span of Jacob’s life came to one hundred and forty-seven years. And when the time approached for Israel to die, he summoned his son Joseph and said to him, “Do me this favor, place your hand under my thigh as a pledge of
- [Miketz (Genesis 41:1 - 44:17)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/12/miketz-genesis-411-4417/) - After two years’ time, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, when out of the Nile there came up seven cows, handsome and sturdy, and they grazed in the reed grass. But presently, seven other cows came up from the Nile close behind them, ugly and gaunt, and stood beside the cows on
- [Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1-40:23)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/12/vayeshev-genesis-371-4023/) - Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. This, then, is the line of Jacob: At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended the flocks with his brothers, as a helper to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. And Joseph brought bad reports of them
- [Vayetzei (Genesis 28:10-32:3)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/12/vayetzei-genesis-2810-323/) - Jacob left Beer-sheba, and set out for Haran. He came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. He had a dream; a stairway was set on the
- [Toldot (Genesis 25:19 - 28:9)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/11/toldot-genesis-2519-289/) - This is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac. Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. Isaac pleaded with יהוה on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and יהוה responded to his plea, and
- [Chayei Sara (Genesis 23:1-25:18)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/11/chayei-sara-genesis-231-2518/) - Sarah’s lifetime—the span of Sarah’s life—came to one hundred and twenty-seven years. Sarah died in Kiriath-arba—now Hebron—in the land of Canaan; and Abraham proceeded to mourn for Sarah and to bewail her. Then Abraham rose from beside his dead, and spoke to the Hittites, saying, “I am a resident alien among you; sell me a
- [Vayera (Genesis 18:1 - 22:24)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/11/vayera-genesis-181-2224/) - יהוה appeared to him by the terebinths of Mamre; he was sitting at the entrance of the tent as the day grew hot. Looking up, he saw three figures standing near him. Perceiving this, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them and, bowing to the ground, he said, “My lords! If
- [Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/11/lech-lecha-genesis-121-1727/) - יהוה said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you
- [Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/10/noach-genesis-69-1132/) - This is the line of Noah.—Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.— Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth became corrupt before God; the earth was filled with lawlessness. When God saw how corrupt the earth was, for all flesh had corrupted its ways
- [V'Zot HaBeracha (Deuteronomy 33:1 - 34:12)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/10/vzot-haberacha-deuteronomy-331-3412/) - This is the blessing with which Moses, God’s agent, bade the Israelites farewell before he died. He said: יהוה came from Sinai, And shone upon them from Seir; [God] appeared from Mount Paran, And approached from Ribeboth-kodesh, Lightning flashing at them from [God’s] right. Lover, indeed, of the people, Their hallowed are all in Your
- [V'Zot HaBerachah (Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/10/vzot-haberachah-deuteronomy-331-3412/) - This is the blessing with which Moses, God’s agent, bade the Israelites farewell before he died. He said: יהוה came from Sinai, And shone upon them from Seir; [God] appeared from Mount Paran, And approached from Ribeboth-kodesh, Lightning flashing at them from [God’s] right. Lover, indeed, of the people, Their hallowed are all in Your
- [Ha'Azinu (Deuteronomy 31:1-52)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/10/haazinu-deuteronomy-311-52/) - Give ear, O heavens, let me speak; Let the earth hear the words I utter! May my discourse come down as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, Like showers on young growth, Like droplets on the grass. For the name of יהוה I proclaim; Give glory to our God! The Rock!—whose deeds are
- [Nitzavim - Vayeilech (Deuteronomy 29:9 - 31:30)](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/09/nitzavim-vayeilech/) - Nitzavim You stand this day, all of you, before your God יהוה —your tribal heads, your elders, and your officials, every householder in Israel, your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer— to enter into the covenant of your God יהוה, which your God יהוה is concluding with you
- [Ki Tavo - Deuteronomy 26:1 - 29:8](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/09/ki-tavo-deuteronomy-261-298/) - When you enter the land that your God יהוה is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that your God יהוה is giving you, put it in a basket and go to
- [Ki Teitzei - Deuteronomy 21:10 - 25:19](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/09/ki-teitzei-deuteronomy-2110-2519/) - When you [an Israelite warrior] take the field against your enemies, and your God יהוה delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her [into your household] as your wife, you shall bring her into
- [Re'eh - Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/08/reeh-deuteronomy-1126-167/) - See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of your God יהוה that I enjoin upon you this day; and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of your God יהוה, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow
- [Eikev - Deuteronomy 7:12 - 11:25](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/08/eikev-deuteronomy-712-1125/) - And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, your God יהוה will maintain faithfully for you the covenant made on oath with your fathers: [God] will favor you and bless you and multiply you—blessing your issue from the womb and your produce from the soil, your new grain and wine and oil,
- [Va'etchanan - Deuteronomy 3:23 - 7:11](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/08/vaetchanan-deuteronomy-323-711/) - I pleaded with יהוה at that time, saying, “O Lord יהוה, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal! Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side
- [Pinchas - Numbers 25:10-30:1](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/07/pinchas-numbers-2510-301/) - יהוה spoke to Moses, saying, “Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion for Me, so that I did not wipe out the Israelite people in My passion. Say, therefore, ‘I grant him My pact of friendship. It shall be
- [Parashat Chukat - Numbers 19:1 - 22:1](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/2024/07/parashat-chukat-numbers-191-221/) - 19 יהוה spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: This is the ritual law that יהוה has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid. You shall give it to Eleazar the priest. It shall be taken

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- [Shabbat Services](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/shabbat-services-2-2026-03-06/) - Join us for Shabbat services every Friday night at 7:00 p.m.
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- [Shabbat Service](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/shabbat-service/) - Join us for Shabbat services on Friday nights.
- [Annual Raffle](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/yearly-raffle/) - Temple Beth-El Annual "SISI VESIMCHU" Join us for great prizes!
- [Latke Breakfast & Congregational Meeting](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/latke-breakfast-congregational-meeting/) - Joins us for our latke breakfast and congregational meeting at 10 am on Sunday December 22, 2024 in the social hall.
- [Monthly Oneg](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/monthly-oneg/) - Join us after shabbat services on our monthly Oneg.
- [3rd Night of Hanukkah Service](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/3rd-night-of-hanukkah-service/) - Join us for services to celebrate the 3rd night of Hanukkah at temple and bring your hanukkiah!
- [Hanukkah](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/hanukkah/)
- [Kol Nidre](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/yom-kippur/) - Services will start at 7:30pm (CST) on Friday, October 11, 2024.
- [Simchat Torah](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/simchat-torah/) - Join us for Simchat Torah on Friday, October 25, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at the Temple.
- [Yom Kippur](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/yom-kippur-2/) - Services will start at 10:00am (CST) on Saturday, October 12, 2024 and will continue until sundown.
- [Rosh Hashanah](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/rosh-hashanah-2/) - Come join us for Rosh Hashanah morning services at 10:00 a.m. (CST) on Thursday, October 3, 2024.
- [Rosh Hashanah](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/rosh-hashanah/) - Come join us for Rosh Hashanah evening services at 7:30pm (CST) on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.
- [Rosh Hashanah Lunch](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/rosh-hashanah-lunch/) - Join us after Rosh Hashanah morning services on Thursday, October 3, 2024 for lunch with the congregation. We want to continue our Temple tradition of enjoying a community lunch together after Rosh Hashanah services. Adults are $20 per person. Children are $10 each. We have to have your PAID reservation by Tuesday, October 1st to hold
- [Pesach](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/pesach/) - Pesach starts before sundown on April 22, 2024 and ends at nightfall on April 30, 2024.
- [Purim](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/purim/) - Please join us for the Megillah reading on March 22, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. followed by a delicious oneg. This year we are encouraging everyone to dress up in costumes for Purim.
- [Shabbat Services](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/events/shabbat-services-2024-02-02/) - Come join us every Friday for Shabbat services at 7:00 p.m. CST.
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## Jewish Veterans

- [Benjamin Kuhnagel](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/benjamin-kuhnagel/) - Benjamin Kuhnagel. Mystery of the Cemetery by Larry Holtzman, Director, HebrewCemetery of Brownsville, TX.A few weeks ago, I received a telephone call from Matamoros, Mexico, asking to see the graveof Benjamin Kuhnagel in the Hebrew Cemetery. The caller was Monica Tapia Kuhnagel.Benjamin was her great, great Grandfather. She said that he died in 1888.I checked
- [Cemetery Maps](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/cemetery-maps/)
- [Brief Veteran's Bios](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/brief-veterans-bios/)
- [Bernard Kowalski](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/bernard-kowalski/) - First a US Soldier then Confederate Soldier Bernard Kowalski was born in Inowrazlaw, Poland in 1821. He immigrated to the United States in 1841 locating in New Orleans where he became a successful businessman. In 1846 he was naturalized as an American citizen and joined the US Army to serve in the Mexican War. He
- [Larry Victor](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/larry-victor/) - Larry Victor was born on June 16, 1933, in Worcester, Massachusetts to immigrant parents, Boris and Sonia Victor, who separated when he was four years old. Raised in Brooklyn, NY by his mother and grown sister, Cecile, Larry was an enterprising youth who worked hard to help support his legally blind mom.When high school no
- [Shachar Oogav](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/shachar-oogav/) - Shachar Oogav was born February 1, 1966, in Israel. He joined the Israeli DefenseForces (IDF). He participated in the defense of the Golan Heights which is a strategic highground for Israel.Shachar moved to South Padre Island where he died of a heart attack on February 16,2017 at the age of fifty-one.
- [Edward A. Max III](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/edward-a-max-iii/) - Edward A. Max III was born on August 8, 1955.Edward joined the Army during the Viet Nam War. He was training in California whenhe died in a training accident on July 4, 1974.He is buried in the Hebrew Cemetery.
- [Alfredo Korzenick](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/alfredo-korzenick/) - Alfredo Korzenik was born October 23, 1933, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, to parents who hademigrated from Poland. They operated a successful shoe business in Cuernavaca.Alfredo married Maria whom he knew in Cuernavaca, and they moved to New York sohe could go to college. He was very affected by the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963and
- [Lazar Sommer](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/lazar-sommer/) - Lazar (Buck) Sommer was born on September 28, 1927, to Nathan and Zina Sommer.His birth certificate shows his name as Lazarus. His parents were from Romania.He was born in Brownsville but moved with his parents to San Francisco where heworked. He enlisted in the US Army during the Korean War. Buck Sommer returned toBrownsville in
- [Jacob Morris Stein](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/jacob-morris-stein/) - – Buried in Buena Vista Cemetery, Brownsville, TexasJ. Morris Stein (1/14/1889-12/7/1946), served in the Army in World War I and was owner of the Brownsville Herald from 1924 to 1929, when he sold the newspaper. In 1930 he purchased anewspaper in Georgia but sold it to return to his beloved Brownsville. He wrote articles for
- [Sammy Ladabaum](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/sammy-ladabaum/) - Sammy Ladabaum was born on July 9, 1933, to Morris and Mae Ladabaum. Sammy grew up in Brownsville. His cousins Sam and Isy Kolmen lived around the corner. Sammy was known as Shorty and Cousin Sam was known as Big Sam since he was a 6-foot-tall redhead.Sammy grew up working at his parent’s store, Alamo
- [Abraham Greenspan](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/abraham-greenspan/) - Abraham Greenspan was born in Mexico City on October 1, 1933, to Nathan and TaniaGreenspan. His dad was from Austria and his mom was from Poland.His sister was Rachel Greenspan, wife of Manuel Perelman, who was a pioneer femalereal estate broker in Brownsville.Abraham got his law degree at The University of Texas, Austin. During the
- [Jean G. Wiedermann](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/jean-g-wiedermann/) - Jean Wiedermann was born on January 24, 1919, in San Antonio, Texas. His dad wasfrom Romania and his mother was of Russian ancestry.Jean graduated from the Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania and got his master’sdegree from the University of Chicago. In 1942, Jean entered WWII becoming a MedicalSupply Officer in the 13 th Army Air Corp.After
- [Bernard Whitman](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/bernard-whitman/) - Bernard Whitman, by Larry HoltzmanBernie Whitman was born in Poland on March 5, 1920. He immigrated to America with his parents when he was 6 months old. As a teenager, he worked for his uncle in a successful New York City hat manufacturing company. They made knockoffs of elegant women’s hats that they spied watching
- [Buddy Sommer](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/buddy-sommer/) - Marcel “Buddy” Sommer was born November 28, 1921, above the Sommer’s Furniture Store at 1208 E. Adams St. in downtown Brownsville. He was one of seven children (four girls and three boys) of Oscar and Laura Sommer. The family was very involved with Temple Beth-El.Buddy graduated from Brownsville High School and joined the U.S. Army
- [Lewis Albert Stein](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/lewis-albert-stein/) - The only Jewish soldier to be killed in action was Lewis A. Stein (9/17/1924-1/8/1945), the son of Morris and Mae Rose Stein. He was born in Brownsville and served as a Sunday school teacher at Temple Beth-El. He graduated from Brownsville High School and entered Texas A & M.When World War II began, Lewis Stein
- [Sidney Leon Sommer](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/sidney-leon-sommer/) - Sidney Sommer was born May 23, 1925, in Brownsville to Oscar and Laura Sommer.On July 13, 1943, Sidney joined the Navy during WWII. He and his two brothers were in thewar as well as two brothers-in-law.After training, Sidney became a pharmacist mate in the Navy. He was discharged onApril 6, 1946.He returned to Brownsville to
- [David Sommer](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/david-sommer/) - David Sommer was born in Brownsville on November 30, 1923, to Oscar and Laura Sommer.He entered WWII in the Army Air Corp. David was chosen to train in electronics and thebeginning of computer science. David Sommer was in the 9 th Army Air Corp and assigned towork in England with the team using the world’s
- [James Lyon Mayer](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/james-lyon-mayer/) - James L. Mayer was born January 24, 1919, and died May 1, 2011, at the age of ninety- two.James went to work in Brownsville in 1940 with Pan-American Airlines which had a large facility at the Brownsville Airport. Pan-Am came here in the 1930’s. Passengers flying to Mexico or South American had to spend the
- [Eddie Paris](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/eddie-paris/) - Eddie Paris was born September 30, 1916. He met his wife, Bernice, in 1944. They weremarried the same year. Bernice was called “Rusty” because of her bright red hair.Eddie was attached to the Army Air Corps and served in Hawaii, Iceland and England. Hewaseventually stationed at the Harlingen Air Base as a crew chief on
- [Allan Sherman](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/allan-sherman/) - Allan Sherman was born in Chicago on September 16, 1928, to Bernard Sherman and EleanorGoldblatt. He passed away on January 3, 1981, at the age of 52.He enlisted in the US Army during the Korean War on April 18, 1952. He was honorably dischargedin 1954. His rank was Corporal.A native of Chicago, he had been
- [Frank Phillips](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/frank-phillips/) - Frank Philips (Pernikoff) was born December 13, 1913, in New York City. He lived inBrownsville for five years. He was assistant principal for the Brownsville Migrant School.Frank died August 8, 1972. He was survived by his wife, Birdie Herman Phillips, his daughter,Ann Roslyn Boudreaux of Anchorage, Alaska, a son, Fred Phillips of Hollywood, Florida, hissister,
- [George Palfy](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/george-palfy/) - George Palfy, Holocaust Survivor, Veteran, US ArmyGeorge Palfy, a longtime Brownsville resident died on October 17, 2011, at the age of 80. His mother, Ann, had taken care of him for many years because of a bad motorcycle accident that hesuffered.George was born March 6, 1931, in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and enjoyed a happy childhood until
- [Morris Lipsker](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/morris-lipsker/) - Morris Lipsker was born June 25, 1914, in Billings, Montana, to parents who immigrated from Russia. He grew up in Billings. After high school, Morris went to work helping his momwith an apartment house she owned.He married a local girl. Sadly, she died while giving birth. The baby girl was saved. Morris joined the Montana
- [Jules Janis](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/jules-janis/) - Jules Janis was born December 24, 1921, in the Bronx, New York City. He was born Julius Jankowitz to Nathan and Francis Jankowitz. His father was from Romania and his mother was Hungarian.After high school, with the outbreak of WWII, Jules enlisted in the Army at the age of 20, joining the US Army Corp
- [Bernard Levin](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/bernard-levin/) - Bernard Levin was born in Beaumont, Texas, on March 16, 1921. At the beginning of World War II, he joined the U.S. Army Air Force and was accepted despite poor eyesight. Some say he cheated on the eye exam.Bernie was a radio operator on a bomber. In 1943, his airplane was shot down over Brennan,
- [Leon Horn](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/leon-horn/) - Leon Horn, Holocaust Survivor, Member of Free French Troops Leon Horn was born August 26, 1924. He and his family were living peacefully in Krakow,Poland. In 1939, when Leon was 15 years old, his world was turned upside down with theinvasion of Poland by the Nazis.In 1940, the family was forced to live in a ghetto
- [Benny Greenspan](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/benny-greenspan/) - Benny and Dorothy Greenspan were the adoptive parents of Henry Greenspan. Henrywas the long-time religious leader of Temple Beth-El until his death in 2019.Benny and Dorothy Greenspan were both born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, around thecorner from each other but never met as children. Benny was born on January 16, 1917, andDorothy was born July 2,
- [Alex Gershowitz](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/alex-gershowitz/) - Alex Gershowitz was born in San Antonio, Texas on Aug. 16, 1922, the son of Russianimmigrants. As the depression set in, he had to quit school and go to work. His energy, workethic and desire to be of service to all he met stayed with him his entire life.Alex came to Brownsville in 1937 to
- [Henry Jacob Fruhling](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/henry-jacob-fruhling/) - Henry Fruhling was born on May 15, 1912, in Podhajce, Poland. He attended theUniversity of Warsaw from 1932 to 1936 receiving a degree in Polish law.When the Nazi troops attached Poland, his parents put him, his brother, and sister on aship to the United States with the intent to follow later. Before the ship sailed,
- [Ruben Edelstein](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/ruben-edelstein/) - Ruben Edelstein was born February 3, 1918, and passed away on July 21, 2014.His parents were Morris and Yetta Edelstein. Morris immigrated to the United States from Lithuania. Morris established Edelstein’s Better Furniture in Brownsville.Ruben was in the first confirmation class of Temple Beth-El in 1933, the year that the synagogue was built. In 1935,
- [Ben Edelstein](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/ben-edelstein/) - Ben Edelstein was born December 14, 1925, and passed away on August 22, 2009.He was born to Morris and Yetta Edelstein, who were pioneers in the Jewish community in Brownsville.Ben Edelstein served in the Navy in WWII as a radar operator on the destroyer “Humphreys”. The ship took part in battles in the Aleutian Islands,
- [Mike Begum](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/mike-begum/) - Michael Begum, a Russian Partisan against the Nazi’sInterview from 1997:“I’m Mike Begum, sometimes called Max. I have a business downtown on Elizabeth Street called The New Yorker selling fine ladies clothing. I even have furs; can you imagine for south Texas.I was born in Russia on June 22, 1922. We were living in Parafianow, Eastern
- [Eli Edelstein](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/eli-edelstein/) - Born 5/11/1898, Died 12/16/1971.Eli was the brother of Morris Edelstein. He was born in Lithuania. In 1928, Eli moved to Mercedes, Texas, to open a furniture store which he owned until his retirement. When WWII started, he decided to join the service despite his age. He was forty-four years old.Eli never married and he had
- [Marvin Brown](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/marvin-brown/) - Marvin Brown was born December 19, 1916, and died on November 26, 2010.During WWII, Marvin was part of Naval aviation. He was an instructor of Naval pilots learning to land and takeoff from carriers. The pilots he trained were instrumental in turning the tide against the Japanese in the Pacific campaign.Marvin Brown had his own
- [Earl Rossman](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/earl-rossman/) - Earl Rossman, Veteran of WWI and WWII, Adventurer.Earl Rossman was born March 9, 1891, on a farm in South Dakota to Jewish parents, his mother was from Poland and father from Bessarabia (later Moldova). Growing up, he became interested in the early days of photography. In 1916, twenty-five-year-old Earl traveled to New York City to
- [Leon Perl](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/leon-perl/) - Leon Perl was born February 24, 1888, in Podjace in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Wolf and Rivka Perl. He and his three siblings, Joseph, Belle, and Sam, arrived in Galveston with their mother in 1900 to join their father, who had immigrated earlier. He was raised in Galveston, where he graduated from Ball High School.In
- [Dr. Harry Kalman Loew](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/dr-harry-kalman-loew/) - Dr. Harry Kalman Loew was born July 10, 1878. His grandfather, Dr. Arthur Wolff, served as US Army Surgeon at Fort Brown during the Civil War. After the war, Dr. Arthur Wolff was a physician in Brownsville, Texas. As a young man, Harry Loew would go with his grandfather on his rounds. Yes, in those days
- [Samuel Levin](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/samuel-levin/) - Born in Poland on October 10, 1892. Died June 14,1966.Her served in the U.S. Army during WWI. He was the father of Bernard Levin, also buried inthe Hebrew Cemetery.Samuel Levin was the Commander of the Valley organization of the Veterans of ForeignWars (VFW).
- [Isadore Dorfman](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/isadore-dorfman/) - July 15, 1895 – October 27, 1965 Isadore Dorfman was born in Galveston, Texas, to Julius and Sarah Leff Dorfman. He had only a third-grade education but was home-schooled by his mother. As a young man, he learned the jewelry business in Houston and Boston. Isadore served in the US infantry during WWI. He married
- [Anita Kowalski Colvin](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/anita-kowalski-colvin/) - The only female military veteran in the Hebrew CemeteryJuly 14, 1885-December 13, 1954.Anita was born in Brownsville to Louis & Amelia Kowalski. She achieved the rank of Captainin the US Army during WWI and was stationed at Ft. Brown and Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.Anita returned to Brownsville, becoming a schoolteacher for the Brownsville IndependentSchool District. She
- [Bernard Lee Cain](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/bernard-lee-cain/) - May 26, 1864 – June 19, 1933Bernard served in the Army in WWI. He was the grandson of Dr. Arthur Wolff.Bernard Lee Cain was a prominent citizen of Brownsville, Texas. He served four years on theBrownsville City Commission and four years as Cameron County Judge.
- [Phillip Bloom](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/phillip-bloom/) - Phillip and Rosanne Bloom were part of the Brownsville Jewish community for many years. Phil was a pharmacist who worked at Jerry Jokl’s Palm Village Pharmacy. Phil and Rosanne raised two boys, Leonard and Edward. Leonard Bloom became an English professor at Pan American University and is retired. Phil was an avid ham radio operator.
- [Oscar Sommer](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/oscar-sommer/) - Oscar Sommer (1889-1971) was a prominent citizen both in Brownsville and Matamoros. Oscar founded and ran a furniture store in downtown Brownsville and lived with his wife Laura on the second floor where they raised their children. When politicians like Lyndon Johnson wanted votes in the Rio Grande Valley, they posed in newspaper photos with
- [Adolph D'Acosta](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/adolph-dacosta/) - Adolph D’Acosta was born in Jamaica on November 27, 1881. He was the son ofa plantation owner and was a descendent of early immigrants to Jamaica. The first Jews inJamaica came from Spain and Portugal from 1494-1655 fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. Toconceal their identity they referred to themselves as “Portuguese” or “Spanish” and practicedtheir religion
- [Adolph Bollack](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/adolph-bollack/) - Adolph Bollack was born in Riedselz, Alsace, France in 1841. At 15 years old he immigrated to the United States on a 3-mast sailing ship. The voyage was beset by storms andtook 57 days. He moved to New Orleans to start a business.When Louisiana joined the Confederacy, Adolph was conscripted into the Confederate Army and
- [Arthur Wolff](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/arthur-wolff/) - Arthur Wolff, Union OfficerArthur Wolff, MD, was born in France and immigrated to the US. In 1861, he joined the Union Army during the Civil War and served at Ft. Brown in Brownsville, Texas. After the war, he settled in Brownsville and served as a doctor during the yellow fever epidemic of 1882. To prevent
- [Louis Wise](https://www.templebethelbrownsville.org/jewish_veterans/louis-wise/) - Wise, Louis, Union Soldier. At 4:30 o'clock this morning, August 25, 1896, after a long and painful illness, Louis Wise passed away from the ranks of the living to the realm of the dead. He was born 56 years, 1 month and 11 days ago at Mainz, Germany. He came to the United States with

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