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Congregation Beth Israel

Asheville, Italy

Congregation Beth Israel

Congregation Beth Israel (Hebrew: בית ישראל) is an independent, traditional egalitarian Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 229 Murdock Avenue in Asheville, North Carolina, in the United States. Founded in 1899 as Bikur Cholim, it was an Orthodox breakaway from Asheville's existing synagog

ue. It hired its first full-time rabbi in 1909, opened a religious school in 1911, and in 1913 it acquired its first building, which burnt down in 1916. The congregation completed its second building in 1924, affiliated with Conservative Judaism in 1949, and changed its name to Beth Israel in 1950. It completed construction of its current building in 1969, and renovated it in 2018. Robert Cabelli joined as rabbi in 2006, and was succeeded by Justin Goldstein in 2014. In 2021, the congregation hired Mitch Levine as rabbi.

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