Beth Israel Congregation () is a
Conservative
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Jewish
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congregation and
synagogue
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, located at 600 Camden Avenue, in
Salisbury
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,
Maryland
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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 ]Wicomico County
Wicomico County ( ) is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Maryland, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population was 103,588. The county seat is Salisbury. The county was named for the Wicomico ...
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.]
See also
* History of the Jews in Maryland
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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
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