{"id":130236,"date":"2025-08-08T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130236\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:08:14","slug":"bexar-county-marks-anniversary-of-san-antonios-temple-beth-el-condemns-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130236\/","title":{"rendered":"Bexar County marks anniversary of San Antonio&#8217;s Temple Beth-el; condemns antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.tpr.org\/a\/tpr-newsletter-signup\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TPR Today<\/a>, Texas Public Radio&#8217;s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning.<\/p>\n<p>Bexar County commissioners this week honored Temple-Beth-el in San Antonio on its recent 150th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners presented temple Rabbi Mara Nathan with a proclamation to honor the anniversary of the largest Jewish synagogue in South Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Precinct 4 County Commissioner Tommy Calvert read the proclamation aloud and mentioned the temple motto: &#8220;Under this dome, anything is possible.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Temple Beth-el has been in its current location at Belknap and Ashby since 1927 and has 900 member families.  <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Cornerstone laying on current temple in 1927\"  width=\"880\" height=\"679\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754694494_556_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> Temple Beth-el<\/p>\n<p> Cornerstone laying on current temple in 1927<\/p>\n<p>The first Temple Beth-el was built downtown in 1874 and had 44 chartered member families.  A second Temple Beth-el at the same location was opened in 1903 and had grown to more than 145 member households.     <\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Nathan thanked commissioners for their support and added: &#8220;Our commitment to social justice and taking care of our larger community is one of our core values,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"573\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754694494_559_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy photo<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> Temple Beth-el<\/p>\n<p> Postcard of second Temple Beth-el<\/p>\n<p>County Judge Peter Sakai praised Nathan&#8217;s leadership of the temple and asked her to pray for community unity after antisemitic vandalism of homes and vehicles in the Castle Hills Forest neighborhood this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to condemn those types of acts, those types of words, those types of actions.&#8221; Sakai told Nathan and others assembled this week in commissioners court at the courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>Juveniles are suspected in what police are calling a &#8220;hate crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for\u00a0TPR Today, Texas Public Radio&#8217;s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-130236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114995665527104524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}