In the News ... "Houses of Faith: Congregation Beth-Israel's synagogue marks 90 years in San Angelo"

Editor's Note: The Standard-Times will spotlight a different San Angelo house of faith each week during 2019.

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• At that time, there were only four synagogues in the Lone Star State

By Matthew McDaniel, Reporter
• San Angelo Standard Times

SAN ANGELO, TEXAS - Though Congregation Beth-Israel, 1825 W. Beauregard Ave., wasn’t officially formed until 1913, Jewish history in San Angelo reaches back to the beginning of town, as most of the property that constituted the Village of Santa Angela was once owned by a Jewish man from San Antonio named Marcus Koenigheim ...

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