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synagogue A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...

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, in the United States.

History

Founded in 1925,Wicomico County MD Council Minutes
, June 20, 2006. it was organized by I.L. Benjamin upon the death of his father, and originally called Kahelas Israel Congregation. At the time there were only nine Jewish families in Salisbury.Glushakow, Abraham Dave. ''A Pictorial History of Maryland Jewry'', Jewish Voice Publishing Company, 1955, p. 48. Beth Israel moved to its current building in 1951. In 2006 the congregation was recognized by both the

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and Salisbury councils for eighty years of providing services and programs to "residents of the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia". , #11 Meeting, June 12, 2006.

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* 1925 establishments in Maryland 20th-century synagogues in the United States Buildings and structures in Salisbury, Maryland Conservative synagogues in Maryland Jewish organizations established in 1925 Religious buildings and structures in Wicomico County, Maryland Synagogues completed in 1951 {{US-synagogue-stub