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    Shalom on the Range

    Aug 26, 2021 5 minutes
    By Dina Gachman

    I’m out at Charles B. “Chuck, the Wrangler” Hart’s 36-acre property in Temple, where he leads me to the barn to show off his old riding saddle and the worn leather chaps his mom sewed for him over 50 years ago. After he’s finished showing off some of his prized possessions, he opens a beautiful wooden cabinet hanging on the wall of his living room to reveal a 100-year-old Torah. “Most people think it’s a gun cabinet,” says Janet Hart, Chuck’s wife.

    Chuck is part of a small but mighty segment of Texas Jews who grew up riding horses, and in some cases wrangling and rodeoing, too. Chuck used to ride ponies after Sunday school on Main Street in Houston in the 1940s for 10 cents a pop. “It was 25 cents to ride the bigger ponies,” Chuck says. His lifelong love

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