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Congregation Beth Israel (Hebrew: בית ישראל) was a Reform synagogue located for most of its history at 761 Chestnut Street in Gadsden Alabama. An outgrowth of Gadsden’s Jewish religious school it was founded in 1908 and incorporated in 1910. It moved into its Chestnut Street building in 1922 and joined the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1924.From 1911 to 1944 it had no rabbi and was led by lay-religious-leader Hugo Hecht.