[2] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places by its original name Chevra B'nai Yisroel Synagogue in 2007.

The first Jewish community in Council Bluffs was an Orthodox congregation in 1881 named Bikur Cholim.

It seats 500 and was built for $26,000[3] (about $400,000 in 2020 values)[4] The rabbis in the 1950s and 1960s were Louis Leifer (1949–1953), David Korb (1953), J.A.

Carrithers in the early 1960s to add more space to the front and back of the older building.

[2] It holds one service per month,[2] attended by local Jews and by members of other Omaha congregations.

The building sits on a raised basement and the three doorways into the sanctuary are reached by a set of concrete steps.

Inset panels of the Star of David and the tablets of the Ten Commandments inscribed in Hebrew are located above the doors.