2432 N. Teutonia Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. County/parish: Milwaukee.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 05, 1992. NRIS 92000107.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid (Hebrew: בית ישראל) is an egalitarian Conservative Jewish congregation whose synagogue is at 6880 North Green Bay Road in Glendale, a suburb north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States.
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 was rabbi from 1970 until his retirement in 1995. Jacob Herber became rabbi in 2003, and Joel Alter in 2018.
As of 2011 Beth Israel was the only synagogue in Milwaukee associated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. It then merged with Temple Beth El Ner Tamid to create Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid. The rabbi was Herber, and the rabbi emeritus was Panitch.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106781613