Ivan Koop Kuper

Ivan Koop Kuper is a freelance writer and a graduate student at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. He is also a real estate broker and a professional drummer who is a member of Congregation B’nai Israel in Galveston, TX. Koop enjoys writing about music, media, history, crime – and the human condition. Follow him on Twitter: @koopkuper.

Black and white photo of Rabbi Henry Cohen

Ten Minutes of Torah

Honoring a Congregation and its Leader of More Than Six Decades

Ivan Koop Kuper

April 26, 2018

Rabbi Henry Cohen became the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Israel in 1888, he couldn’t know that he would remain at the synagogue for the next 64 years.