{"id":61160,"date":"2023-12-15T01:55:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T06:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=61160"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:08:13","slug":"churches-and-synagogues-of-san-antonio-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2023\/12\/15\/churches-and-synagogues-of-san-antonio-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches and Synagogues of San Antonio&#8211; Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Temple Beth-el is indeed a very old synagogue.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an old snapshot\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140416.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61163\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140416.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synagogues are places where history is highly valued and treasured and rightly so.\u00a0 In the cabinets in the hallway of the synagogue we find all sorts of things ancient and modern including an historic Torah scroll rescued from the Warsaw Ghetto before the Nazis destroyed things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140513.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61166\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140513.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140458.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61169\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140458.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140451.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61172\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140451.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there are also modern gifts to the synagogue for instance\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140302.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61175\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2023\/12\/thumbnail_20231120_140302.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"314\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temple Beth-el is indeed a very old synagogue.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an old snapshot\u2026.. 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