Interfaith Ministries shared the news of Rabbi Karff’s death on Saturday. According to Congregation Beth Israel, Rabbi Karff was Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel from 1975 to 1999 when he ...
A MERCHANT travelling in the Middle East in AD802 is said to have bought a slave girl who could play chess. He found this so remarkable that he wrote to a friend about her: not so much that she was a ...
As a rabbi, Samuel Karff is often called on to defend faith. But few attacks were as direct as the one from a writer who, cocktail in hand, confronted Karff at a party with this opening line: "'So, ...
Rabbi Samuel E. Karff, a civil rights advocate who served the Congregation Beth Israel in Houston as a counselor and rabbi for decades, has died. He was 88. “Today, we mourn the loss of a friend, ...
A Harris County bridge will bear the name of Rabbi Samuel Karff, honoring the life and legacy of a man remembered for being an advocate for civil rights and social justice. County officials made the ...
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