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Congregation Beth Shalom is a
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 ...
located at 688 Clifton Park Center Road,
Clifton Park, New York Clifton Park is a suburban town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. According to the United States Census Bureau, the 2020 population was 38,029. The name is derived from an early land patent.Bits and Pieces of Saratoga County History by ...
. Rabbi in 2017 is Chanan Markowitz. It is the only synagogue in southern
Saratoga County Saratoga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York, and is the fastest-growing county in Upstate New York. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population was enumerated at 235,509, representing a 7.2% increase from the 2010 popul ...
. According to its 2016 "State of the Synagogue" report, it is losing members. The synagogue was founded in 1975. It was originally a
Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...
synagogue, but about 2005 it withdrew from the
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) is the major congregational organization of Conservative Judaism in North America, and the largest Conservative Jewish communal body in the world. USCJ closely works with the Rabbinical Assembly ...
, and as of 2017 continues unaffiliated. The synagogue is the first Conservative synagogue to have a
female rabbi Women rabbis are individual Jewish women who have studied Jewish Law and received rabbinical ordination. Women rabbis are prominent in Progressive Jewish denominations, however, the subject of women rabbis in Orthodox Judaism is more complex. A ...
: Beverly Magidson (1983-1991), who was also the synagogue’s first full-time rabbi.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Beth Shalom Synagogues in Upstate New York Unaffiliated synagogues in the United States Buildings and structures in Saratoga County, New York Jewish organizations established in 1975