Temple Israel is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 330 Joe Clifton Drive, in Paducah, Kentucky, in the United States.
Membership is a mix of families that have lived in Paducah for several generations, as well as those arriving in the area more recently.
[2] The community was founded in 1864 as the Paducha Chevra Yeshrun Burial Society, and the congregation was chartered in 1871 as Kehillah Kodesh Bene Yeshurun ("Holy Community of the People of Righteousness")[1] when it established its first synagogue, on South Fifth Street.
Paducah's elaborate, Moorish Revival-style synagogue, designed by Brinton B. Davis, was built in 1893 on the corner of Broadway and 7th Street.
[5]: 69 The current synagogue building, dedicated in May 1963, is at the corner of Madison and Joe Clifton Drive,[6] designed by Cincinnati-based architects, Pepinsky, Grau, Shroud, and Shorr.