Congregation Beth Israel is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue located at 989 West 28th Avenue in Vancouver, British Columbia.

[8] Other rabbis included David Kogen (1946–1955),[9] Bert Woythaler (1956–1963),[9][10] and Wilfred Solomon, who served for decades starting in 1964.

[11] The congregation worshiped at the Jewish Community Center in Fairview until 1948, when it opened its current building at 4350 Oak Street.

[1] Congregation Beth Israel (Hebrew: בית ישראל) was founded in September, 1925, but did not formally incorporate until November, 1932.

[6][17] Most Jewish immigrants to Vancouver were, however, Orthodox Yiddish-speakers from Eastern Europe, and Emanu-El's membership did not grow.

[6] Beth Israel's founders were second generation, Canadian-born, English-speaking Jews who wanted mixed seating, and an alternative to Vancouver's Orthodox Congregation Schara Tzedeck[2][4][13] (founded 1907).

He left Beth Israel the following year, and moved to the Forest Hills Jewish Center in Queens, New York 1935, where he remained (aside from a brief stint as a U.S. Army chaplain) until his death in 1984.

From 1942 to 1946 Cass served as Senior Jewish Chaplain for the Canadian Army and Navy, attaining the rank of Major.

Woythaler had fled Nazi Germany in 1936, after attending the University of Berlin, and subsequently graduated from the JTS in New York.

[4] By the end of the decade, led by Solomon, Beth Israel had 650 member families, and was the largest synagogue in Vancouver.

[28] By 1978, Beth Israel had 660 member families, and was the largest synagogue in British Columbia.

[1] The building was expanded and largely rebuilt from 2012 to 2014, re-opening on September 14, 2014, just in time for the High Holydays.