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Search-and-rescue operations continued for missing persons after the Texas Hill Country, a region spanning the central and southern parts of the state, became inundated after torrential rain, causing the Guadalupe River to rise as much as 30 feet in some places, July 5, 2025. Credit: U.S. Coast Guard via Wikimedia Commons.
Recalling lives lost in water that submerged Texas Hill Country
Beyond the despair and sadness, questions about why begin to creep in.
Gabe Groisman
July 8, 2025
Search-and-rescue operations continued for missing persons after the Texas Hill Country, a region spanning the central and southern parts of the state, became inundated after torrential rain, causing the Guadalupe River to rise as much as 30 feet in some places, July 5, 2025. Credit: U.S. Coast Guard via Wikimedia Commons.
Israeli premier, UN envoy express condolences for Texas flooding fatalities
“Israel knows disaster—we’ve lived through war, fire and flood. Dear friends, we stand with you!” wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
July 7, 2025
Law enforcement and volunteers continue to search for missing people near Camp Mystic, the site where at least 20 girls went missing after flash flooding in central Texas, July 5, 2025. Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images.
Israel ‘heartbroken’ by deadly Texas flash floods, says Herzog
The Israeli head of state expressed his "deepest condolences" as deaths and the missing continued to mount.
JNS Staff
July 6, 2025
(From left to right) Roz Rothstein, co-founder and CEO of StandWithUs; Rabbi Yossi Eilfort, founder of Magen Am; Dani Menkin, creator of Hey Jude Productions; and Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, former rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during a Q&A session after a screening of “Colleyville” at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June 9, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of StandWithUs.
Documentary about 2022 synagogue hostage crisis speaks to extremism today, rabbi says
“We’re living in a society where most of our kids know what to do in an emergency situation. The adults need to learn it as well,” Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker told JNS.
Aaron Bandler
June 16, 2025
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs a statewide school choice bill into law at the governor's mansion in Austin on May 3, 2025. Credit: Texas governor's office.
Texas governor signs school-choice bill into law
"Texas families, whose children can no longer be served by the public school assigned to them, have the choice to take their money and find the school that is right for them," Gov. Greg Abbott stated.
May 5, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in Jerusalem, Jan. 18, 2016. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.
‘Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies’: Abbott slams San Marcos council
"If the city adopts the antisemitic resolution, the office of the governor will immediately terminate all active grants not in compliance with state law," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stated.
April 30, 2025
Texas State Capitol in Austin. Credit: LoneStarMike via Wikimedia Commons.
‘A lifeline for families,’ Texas legislature passes universal school-choice bill
“Thanks to the dedication of our lawmakers, Texas families will soon have education freedom,” wrote Greg Abbott, the state governor.
JNS Staff
April 25, 2025
Rabbi Chanania Steinmetz (right), a U.S. Air Force chaplain, shakes hands with Rabbi Aaron Lipskar, CEO of the Aleph Institute, at the 18th Annual Aleph Military Symposium in Surfside, Fla., March 6, 2025. Credit: Yisroel Teitelbaum/Aleph Institute.
‘Blessing’ to be able to decline so many Purim invites in NY, says chaplain bound for Texas base
“It’s important for me to help other Jews have the chance to experience the holiday on this level,” the Chabad rabbi told JNS.
Vita Fellig
March 13, 2025
MK Ohad Tal (Religious Zionism Party) poses for a picture a day before the opening session of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Nov. 14, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
‘Sister Lone Star State’: Knesset member marks Texas independence day
"Israelis and Texans share profound appreciation for the values of faith, freedom and resilience," stated Religious Zionism's Ohad Tal.
Akiva Van Koningsveld
March 13, 2025