Schaefer Edwards

The Houston Jewish History Archive, a joint project of Rice University’s Program in Jewish Studies in the School of Humanities and the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library, will be renamed the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives, thanks to a generous gift from the Alexander family of Houston. While the formal name change will take effect Jan.

The United States finally hit the tragic milestone of over 700,000 COVID-19 fatalities over the weekend, solidifying the coronavirus pandemic as the most deadly pandemic in the history of our country. But thankfully, key COVID-19 metrics across the country, Texas and in the greater Houston area continue to trend downward as the Delta variant wave appears to be petering out — at least for now.

In a series of tweets Thursday night, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont) publicly broke with Gov. Greg Abbott over Abbott's insistence that Texas lawmakers should increase penalties for voting illegally, and disagreed with Gov. Dan Patrick’s assertion that retiring state Rep. Chris Paddie (R-Marshall) couldn’t be trusted based on his approach to winter storm response.