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JL;DR SUMMARY The Bnai Abraham synagogue, a historic wood-frame structure and the oldest intact synagogue in Texas, has been relocated from Brenham to the Dell Jewish Community Campus in Austin. 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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Jewish CommunityOrthodox JudaismJewish HeritageSynagogue RelocationSynagogue PreservationOrthodox MinyanTexas Jewish HistoryBnai AbrahamLeon ToubinMichael Dell

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Brenham, Texas, United States
"The 121-year-old wood-frame, clapboard-sided Bnai Abraham synagogue of Brenham, Texas, has been sliced in pieces, trucked across four counties, and re-erected on the Dell Jewish Community Campus in Austin."
Austin, Texas, United States
"The 121-year-old wood-frame, clapboard-sided Bnai Abraham synagogue of Brenham, Texas, has been sliced in pieces, trucked across four counties, and re-erected on the Dell Jewish Community Campus in Austin."

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