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Beth Israel Congregation is a Conservative synagogue located at 385 Pottstown Pike (Route 100) in Upper Uwchlan Township Chester County Pennsylvania. It was founded in Coatesville Pennsylvania in 1904 as Kesher Israel by Eastern European immigrants and formally chartered as Beth Israel in 1916. It constructed its first building in 1923 and expanded it after World War II.In 1979 Beth Israel became the first Conservative congregation to hire a woman (Linda Joy Holtzman) as a rabbi.