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Why is Karl Rove supporting a progressive Jewish candidate in Texas?

September 28, 2026September 28, 2026Sara Wood

Progressive Jewish Texas state Sen. Jon Rosenthal has earned an unusual distinction: He is the first Democrat to win the vote of GOP guru Karl Rove in more than 30 years. What did the only Jew serving in the Texas state house do to earn this distinction? It’s more what he didn’t do: run for […]

After outcry, Texas lieutenant governor says schools should teach Holocaust books ‘Night,’ ‘Anne Frank’

September 18, 2026September 18, 2026Sara Wood

The lieutenant governor of Texas says his recent call for the state’s public schools to remove “over 2,000 titles” of “dirty, filthy and vulgar books” was not meant to include books about the Holocaust. Dan Patrick’s statement, provided exclusively to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Friday, comes after a month of confusion following a press […]

Anne Frank and ‘Night’ may soon be required reading in Texas public schools. Is that good for the Jews?

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026Sara Wood

In the years since school libraries became a culture-war flashpoint, Texas has been one of the most active states to pull books from shelves in response to parental complaints — sometimes including versions of Anne Frank’s diary and other Jewish books. Now, Texas is pursuing a new approach: requiring that Frank’s diary, and several other […]

In Galveston, descendants of a forgotten Jewish migration keep their community’s story alive

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025Sara Wood

GALVESTON, Texas – More than a century ago, this busy Gulf Coast port and longtime vacation destination 50 miles southeast of Houston welcomed so many European immigrants – including some 10,000 Jews – it earned the moniker “The Ellis Island of the West.” Today, the few remaining descendants of Jewish immigrants from that time period […]

Craig Goldman of Texas wins race, becoming 3rd Jewish Republican in Congress

November 5, 2024November 10, 2024Sara Wood

Craig Goldman, a businessman and Texas state legislator, handily won his congressional race in north Texas, bringing the number of Jewish Republicans in Congress to three for the first time in more than a decade. Goldman’s defeat Tuesday of Democrat Trey Hunt, by a margin of 64% to 36%, means that he succeeds Rep. Kay […]

How does the inability to burp affect daily life?

December 24, 2023December 26, 2023Arsen Mayer

Burping in public is not only embarrassing, but people who are unable to release gas from their stomach are unfortunate in other ways. The inability to burp, officially called “retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD),” is caused by the failure of the throat’s cricopharyngeal muscle to relax and allow the outward passage of gas. A burp or […]