[3] Members donated $18,000 for the renovations of a former Elks Club building on West Second Street in order to make it suitable as a synagogue.

[3][5] Rabbi Menahem J. Friedman was the congregation's spiritual leader at the time of the dedication, although he resigned later than month and moved to Baltimore.

[9] Rabbi Morris Kosman, a Detroit native who had served as the congregation's spiritual leader since 1961, retired and assumed emeritus status in 2010.

[10] After a year and a half, Singerman resigned, and Beth Sholom was served until July 2014 by a visiting rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York under the Gladstein Fellowship program,[14] Rabbi Jordan Hersh and his wife, Cantor Shulie Hersh.

[16] Rabbi Hersh is also the only chaplain in Maryland's Army National Guard; he was called to serve and protect the Capitol in the wake of the insurrection on January 6, 2021.