Congregation Beth Israel, Reform Jewish synagogue in Scottsdale, United States.
This Reform Jewish congregation serves the Scottsdale community from its modern facility at 10460 North 56th Street, featuring a main sanctuary that accommodates 450 worshippers and an additional chapel for smaller ceremonies and gatherings.
Jewish settlers in Phoenix held High Holiday services from 1906; Barnett E. Marks, a Chicago lawyer, organized a Sunday School above Melczer's saloon. The congregation incorporated as Beth Israel in 1920, and in 1921–1922 built a stuccoed Mission Revival synagogue at Central Avenue and Culver Street with $14,000 raised and the firm Lescher, Kibbey and Mahoney. A 1935 fire destroyed much of the building, which was rebuilt and remodeled.
The congregation's first building, a stuccoed Mission Revival synagogue raised in 1921–1922 near Central Avenue and Culver Street in Downtown Phoenix, was sold in 1949 and later served as churches. The Jewish community repurchased it in 2002, and in 2008 it reopened as the Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center, run by the Arizona Jewish Historical Society.
Weekly Shabbat services are held on Friday evenings with live streaming options available through YouTube and Facebook, while the official website cbiaz.org provides current schedules, membership information, and registration details for community programs.
The congregation's original 1921–1922 building near Central Avenue and Culver Street in Downtown Phoenix, a stuccoed Mission Revival structure, was sold in 1949 and later housed churches. The Jewish community repurchased it in 2002, and in 2008 it reopened as the Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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