![Ben Spector, Ezra Gould and Sam Baron carry a box of donated books. The third-grade class at Mirowitz spearheaded the book collection effort.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/913f5d884772d5d639a0bd01f4475cb1.jpg)
Students send thousands of books — and dollars — to Jewish groups in Houston
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 20, 2017
![The flooded street outside of the Houston apartment building of JNS.org’s Jacob Kamaras on April 18. Photo: Jacob Kamaras.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/6a27791c201aaba4a2dab42b0eab7437.jpg)
Another year, another flood for Houston’s Jews. What now?
By Jacob Kamaras
• Published April 27, 2016
![Chris Cole, coach of the boys basketball team at the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston, offering up some strategy for his squad.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/882d3a127dc4c9b3ebe7263a7da8efd9-2.jpg)
Orthodox team advances to Texas state championship game
JTA
• Published March 2, 2012
![Chris Cole, coach of the boys basketball team at the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston, offering up some strategy for his squad.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/882d3a127dc4c9b3ebe7263a7da8efd9.jpg)
Beren Academy prevails in Texas tourney controversy
JTA
• Published March 1, 2012
Jewish school’s appeal to reschedule game denied
JTA
• Published March 1, 2012
![Chris Cole, coach of the boys basketball team at the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston, offering up some strategy for his squad.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/882d3a127dc4c9b3ebe7263a7da8efd9.jpg)
Shabbat conflict sends Beren Academy basketball squad to the sidelines
By Ben Harris, JTA
• Published February 28, 2012
Jewish school is denied request to change basketball tourney time
JTA
• Published February 27, 2012
![Whitney Houston](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2aea40e5ccbcc0fcf10000a740cec03f.jpg)
Pop star Whitney Houston, who visited Black Hebrews in Israel, dies
JTA
• Published February 12, 2012
![The Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston is open to kids 18 months
old and all the way through high school.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2f7c9d6bbff8654a52dbe2d6895fbf3b.jpg)
Orthodox Union has found solution to Orthodoxy’s problems: Houston
By Uriel Heilman, JTA
• Published February 2, 2012
Texas enacts law upholding mezuzah rights
Published June 22, 2011
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