Leadership Eli and Wenday Hauser Materials Clapboard Material Clapboard | Status Active Website www.capecodshul.org Phone +1 508-291-1058 | |
Address 7 Locust St, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532, USA Similar Porter Thermometer Museum, Aptucxet Trading Post Mus, Onset Beach, Water Wizz, Sandwich Glass Museum | ||
Congregation Beth Israel (Hebrew: בית ישראל) is an Orthodox congregation located at 7 Locust Street in Onset, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. It is famous as the summer synagogue of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and some of his students from the 1950s until the mid-1960s, when his wife died. The clapboard building was originally a furniture store, before it was converted to a synagogue in 1948.
Initially a destination for Jewish vacationers from Boston, Beth Israel now attracts Jews from Toronto, Montreal, and New York City from a "wide cross-section of Orthodoxy", including "Young Israel, Chabad, Chasidim from Montreal, Charedim, Carlebach Chasidim, very-left wing (Edah) and 'Conservadox'." The synagogue maintains three daily minyans throughout the summer and through the High Holidays.