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Hurricane Harvey Flooded This Synagogue. Now It’s Being Torn Down.

JL;DR SUMMARY The United Orthodox Synagogues in Houston is set to be demolished after Hurricane Harvey inflicted severe damage, filling it with seven feet of water. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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CommunityRebuildingSynagogue LifeDemolitionHoustonFloodingHurricane HarveyUnited Orthodox SynagoguesMeyerlandJewish Communal Centers

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Houston, Texas, United States
"The United Orthodox Synagogues building in Houston, Texas, has been flooded three times in as many years."

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