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Congregation Beth Israel ((ヘブライ語:בית ישראל)) is an egalitarian〔 Conservative synagogue located at 6880 North Green Bay Road in Glendale, Wisconsin, a suburb north of Milwaukee. Founded in 1884 as Congregation B'ne Jacob, the congregation split, re-amalgamated, and went bankrupt before re-organizing as Beth Israel in 1901.〔 The synagogue building it constructed on Teutonia Avenue in 1925, and sold in 1959, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.〔〔 The current building was constructed in three phases,〔 completed in 1962, 1966, and 1980.〔 Solomon Scheinfeld was the congregation's first permanent rabbi, serving in 1892, and again from 1902 until his death in 1943.〔〔 Herbert Panitch joined Beth Israel as rabbi in 1970, and served until his retirement in 1995.〔〔 Jacob Herber became rabbi in 2003.〔 Beth Israel was the only synagogue in Milwaukee associated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.〔 The rabbi was Herber, and the rabbi emeritus was Panitch.〔 ==Early years== In 1884 Congregation B'ne Jacob was formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By 1886 it had split into two congregations, Moses Montefiore Gemeinde and Anshe Jacob. In 1891 they re-amalgamated, creating Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, and the following year hired Solomon Isaac Scheinfeld as the congregation's first permanent rabbi.〔(History ), Synagogue website.〕 Scheinfeld had been born in Lithuania in 1860, and had moved to Milwaukee soon after receiving ''semicha'' in 1890.〔Hintz (2005), p. 65.〕 He stayed less than a year before moving to Kentucky.〔 The congregation completed a new synagogue building at 462 Fifth Street in 1893, but was unable to afford the mortgage, and in 1900 the courts foreclosed on the property. The following year the congregation was re-organized as Congregation Beth Israel and re-acquired the synagogue building on Fifth Street, and in 1902 Scheinfeld was re-hired as rabbi.〔 By 1918, the synagogue had 108 member families, and annual revenues of $7,000 (today $).〔''American Jewish Year Book'', Vol. 21, p. 581.〕 Scheinfeld served as Beth Israel's rabbi until his death in 1943.〔 During his tenure, he established a ''maot chitim'' (literally "money for wheat") fund, to provide for the needs of Milwaukee Jews too poor to afford food for the Passover Seder. That fund continued after his death as the "Rabbi Solomon I. Scheinfeld Moath Chitim Fund", and in 2003 distributed $20,000 worth of food to 600 families.〔Cohen (April 11, 2003).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Congregation Beth Israel (Milwaukee)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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