Capital City Village members, volunteers and friends have the opportunity to tour the oldest synagogue building in Texas along with one of the newest, both on the Dell Jewish Community Center Campus, 7300 Hart Ln. Be sure and RSVP so our tour guide Jay Rubin will have an accurate number. The group will meet at the flagpoles at 2pm Sunday, October 28 for the two-hour tour.

 

Old & New:

The B'nai Abraham Synagogue was moved from Brenham, Texas to Austin in 2015. The group will also tour the newer synagogues on the campus.

 

Jay L. Rubin retired two years ago after a decade as CEO of Shalom Austin, the Central Texas integrated community organization comprised of the Jewish Federation, Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family Service and Jewish Foundation and managing the 40-acre Dell Jewish Community Campus with three synagogues and a Jewish community day school. He also served as a Jewish community executive director in Augusta, Georgia; Canton, Ohio, and New Haven, Connecticut and Executive Vice President of Hillel International during a 35-year professional career. A native of pre-hip Brooklyn, New York. Jay is on his third tour of duty in Austin, first as a history professor in the late 1970s and early 1980s, then as the Shalom Austin CEO beginning in 2006 and now as a part-time consultant, volunteer and grandparent.