In 1891 they re-amalgamated, creating Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, and the following year hired Solomon Isaac Scheinfeld as the congregation's first permanent rabbi.

[5] The congregation completed a new synagogue building at 462 Fifth Street in 1893, but was unable to afford the mortgage, and in 1900 the courts foreclosed on the property.

[6] During his tenure, he established a מעות חטים (maot chitim, literally "money for wheat" in Hebrew) fund to provide for the needs of Milwaukee Jews too poor to afford food for the Passover Seder.

[5][3] That new building had a rectangular footprint and gable roof, with walls of brown brick and the front flanked by two square towers with Byzantine-styled copper domes.

Inside, the sanctuary displayed a wooden ark on four columns, four ceremonial chairs, and the tablets of the Ten Commandments, all of which have been moved to the new synagogue.

[6] However, the congregation had done away with separate seating for men and women in 1920s or 30s; at the same time Beth Israel also instituted English language sermons.

[7][8] Toronto native Mitchell Joshua Martin, a graduate of the cantorial school at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA), joined as cantor in 2002.

[9] Funded by congregation members and the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, Herber traveled to Uganda in July 2008 to assist in the Abayudaya in converting to Judaism.

He returned to New York to recruit new rabbis and cantors to JTS as its director of admissions, focusing on the American Jewish community’s contemporary religious needs.

Rabbi Alter moved to Milwaukee with his twin daughters, Ayelet and Annael, to lead a congregation for the first time.