Congregation Beth Israel (), sometimes called Cape Cod Shul and officially Congregation Beth Israel of Onset Cape Cod, is an

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congregation and

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located at 7 Locust Street,

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, on

Cape Cod Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months. The ...

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, in the United States. Historically, it is well known as the summer synagogue of Rabbi

Joseph B. Soloveitchik Joseph Ber Soloveitchik ( ''Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik''; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic ...

and some of his students from the 1950s until the mid-1960s, when his wife died. The

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building was originally a furniture store, before it was converted to a synagogue in 1948. Initially a destination for Jewish vacationers from

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, Beth Israel now attracts Jews from

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, and

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from a "wide cross-section of Orthodoxy", including "

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Chabad Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (; ; ), is a dynasty in Hasidic Judaism. Belonging to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) branch of Orthodox Judaism, it is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, as well as one of ...

Chasidim Ḥasīd (, "pious", "saintly", "godly man"; plural "Hasidim") is a Jewish honorific, frequently used as a term of exceptional respect in the Talmudic and early medieval periods. It denotes a person who is scrupulous in his observance of Jewish ...

from Montreal,

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Chasidim, very-left wing (

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) and '

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'." The synagogue maintains three daily ''

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''s throughout the summer and through the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Beth Israel (Onset, Massachusetts) Buildings and structures in Plymouth County, Massachusetts Canadian-American culture in Massachusetts Canadian-Jewish diaspora Clapboard synagogues Orthodox synagogues in Massachusetts Synagogues completed in 1948 1940s establishments in Massachusetts Jewish organizations established in 1948 20th-century synagogues in the United States