Beth Israel's (and Edmonton's) first rabbi was Hyman Goldstick, recruited from Toronto in 1906;[2] he was later elected mayor of Edson, Alberta.

[5] He was also the Edmonton community's mohel (circumciser), and ritual slaughterer (subsequent rabbis would, for decades, also fill all three roles).

[1] High Holiday services were held in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall.

[1][2] In May of that year it purchased land for a cemetery, near Clover Bar, in Edmonton's east end.

[1] Diamond ran a clothing business he had started in Edmonton; by the 1920s, it was the largest in the Canadian Prairies.

[6] Diamond would serve as congregational president until 1938, the same year the synagogue transferred title of its cemetery to the local chevra kadisha (burial society).

[1][6] The Edmonton Talmud Torah would operate out of the synagogue's location for over twelve years,[6][9] and later became Canada's first Jewish day school.

[5][6] In 1910, Diamond donated land on 95th Street near Grierson Hill south of Jasper Avenue to the congregation for a synagogue building.

"[6] Pinsky was Beth Israel's longest-serving rabbi, resigning in 1933; he was replaced that year by Isaac Haft.

[9] Louis Ginsburg joined Postone as rabbi in 1954;[1] that year, the Talmud Torah moved to a new building in the city's northwest section,[9] and Edmonton's Jewish Community Council was formed.

[1] Land was donated at 131 Wolf Willow Road NW for a new synagogue in 1984, but it would be another twelve years before further steps were taken.

The ornamentation features symbols such as Stars of David, signs of the zodiac and natural forms.