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Chabad at Rice University welcomed members of the Rice community to a celebration of the beginning of Hanukkah Dec. 8.

‘Add a little more light’: Chabad at Rice celebrates beginning of Hanukkah with students

December 9, 2024

Chabad at Rice University welcomed members of the Rice community to a celebration of the beginning of Hanukkah Dec. 8.

Jewish teen athletes from around the globe gather on Rice University's campus Aug. 4-9 for the 2024 Maccabi Games.

Rice hosts world’s largest Jewish youth sporting event with JCC Maccabi Games® and Access

August 14, 2024

About 1,500 Jewish teen athletes from around the globe gathered on Rice’s campus Aug. 4-9 for the JCC Maccabi Games® and Access.

About 80 high school seniors from tThe Emery/Weiner School visited Rice University’s Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives (STJA) earlier this month for an educational program focusing on the history of refuseniks in the Soviet Union and the Houston Action for Soviet Jewry.

Rice’s South Texas Jewish Archives hosts local high schoolers for educational program on campus

May 16, 2024

About 80 high school seniors from The Emery/Weiner School visited Rice University’s Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives (STJA) earlier this month for an educational program focusing on the history of refuseniks in the Soviet Union and the Houston Action for Soviet Jewry.

Melissa Cohen-Nickels, an experienced educator with a passion for history, has been named the new curator of Rice University’s Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives, starting this role in March.

Melissa Cohen-Nickels named curator of Rice’s Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives

March 28, 2024

Melissa Cohen-Nickels, an experienced educator with a passion for history, has been named the new curator of Rice University’s Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives, starting this role in March.

Rice students at Mega Shabbat 2023

Rice Chabad hosts its biggest ‘Mega Shabbat’ dinner yet

April 10, 2023

Chabad at Rice welcomed over 100 students and other members of the Rice community to its annual “Mega Shabbat” dinner for an evening of traditional Jewish food, fun and fellowship March 24.

Students participating in Mitzvah Marathon

Marathon of mitzvahs

February 27, 2023

Rice students and community members were invited to the Central Quad Feb. 22 by Chabad at Rice to participate in the group’s latest Mitzvah Marathon “good deed drive.”

pre-hanukkah party giveaway items including free menorahs

Lights, latkes, fun and fellowship

December 12, 2022

Members of the Rice community gathered at Valhalla for an evening of celebration Dec. 5 for Chabad at Rice’s pre-Hanukkah bash.

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Rice’s Houston Jewish History Archive to become Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives

December 12, 2022

In appreciation of the Alexander family of Houston's longtime support of Jewish Studies in the School of Humanities and the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library, Rice will name the Houston Jewish History Archive the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives effective Jan. 1.

Student speaking with professor at Humanities event

Languages and Cultures Fest brings students together with ice cream and more

March 28, 2022

On March 25, the School of Humanities invited students to an ice cream social at the Humanities Building courtyard to share details about several cultural programs and courses available this fall.

Jewish Food course at Kenny & Ziggy's

Jewish Food class visits ‘deli maven’ for dinner

December 13, 2021

Students learned from Ziggy Gruber himself during an end-of-course dinner at his deli

Rabbi Samuel Karff of Congregation Beth Israel will explore how religious leaders can teach and preach about divine healing in a lecture to Houston's annual Clergy Institute. 1/15/99.Photo: Carlos Antonio Rios, Staff / Houston Chronicle

Rice remembers legendary Rabbi Samuel Karff, one of Houston’s 'Three Wise Men'

August 17, 2020

Rabbi Karff lectured at Rice for over 20 years and was influential in fundraising for its Jewish Studies program.

Mitzvah Marathon 2020

Mitzvah Marathon lights up campus

March 2, 2020

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Good deeds wanted at annual Mitzvah Marathon

February 14, 2020

To do a mitzvah is to do a good deed. And that’s exactly what you’ll be able to do at the Mitzvah Marathon.

José María Barreto, the consul general of Peru in Switzerland during World War II, is one of 15 diplomats recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and spotlighted in the Rayzor Hall exhibition.

Holocaust’s defiant diplomats: Jewish Studies exhibition honors extraordinary envoys

January 27, 2020

Rayzor Hall lobby now showing ‘Beyond Duty’ throughout spring semester.

A rare pamphlet printed in Ukraine in 1907 sheds new light on the Galveston Movement. (Photos by Jeff Fitlow)

New light on the Galveston Movement: Houston Jewish History Archive acquires rare pamphlet

January 21, 2020

A 1907 guide for immigrants illuminates a fascinating chapter in Texas history.

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