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Congregation Beth Israel is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue located at 989 West 28th Avenue in Vancouver, British Columbia. A place of worship in Greater Vancouver, it was founded in 1925, but did not formally incorporate until 1932.〔 Its first rabbi was Ben Zion Bokser, hired that year.〔〔 He was succeeded the following year by Samuel Cass (1933–1941).〔 Other rabbis included David Kogen (1946–1955),〔 Bert Woythaler (1956–1963),〔〔 and Wilfred Solomon, who served for decades starting in 1964.〔 The congregation worshiped at the Jewish Community Center in Fairview until 1948, when it opened its current building at 4350 Oak Street.〔 By the end of the 1960s, it was the largest Jewish congregation in Vancouver,〔 and by the 1990s, it was Canada's largest Conservative congregation west of Winnipeg.〔〔 Charles Feinberg was rabbi from 1998 to 2006,〔 and he was succeeded that year by Jonathan Infeld.〔 , Beth Israel had over 700 member families.〔 The current rabbi is Jonathan Infeld, and the cantor is Lawrence Szenes-Strauss.〔 == Early history == Congregation Beth Israel ((ヘブライ語:בית ישראל)) was founded in September, 1925, but did not formally incorporate until November, 1932.〔 The incorporation was done in cooperation with the United Synagogue of America (now the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism);〔 at the time, this was unusual in Western Canada, where most synagogues were Orthodox.〔 Previously, the small non-Orthodox Temple Emanu-El—also called the ''Deutscher Shul'' ("German synagogue")—had been formed in Vancouver in 1894〔 or 1895〔 as a "semi-Reform" congregation – not Orthodox, but more traditional than American Reform congregations.〔〔 Most Jewish immigrants to Vancouver were, however, Orthodox Yiddish-speakers from Eastern Europe, and Emanu-El's membership did not grow.〔〔 It lasted until 1910.〔 Beth Israel's founders were second generation, Canadian-born, English-speaking Jews who wanted mixed seating, and an alternative to Vancouver's Orthodox Congregation Schara Tzedeck〔〔〔 (founded 1907).〔〔 Former members of Temple Emanu-El joined with the new congregation, which also took responsibility for a religious school.〔 Once the Jewish Community Center was built in Fairview in 1928, the congregation held its services there.〔〔 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 (Vancouver)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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