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Congregation B’nai Israel is a Reform Jewish synagogue located in Bridgeport Connecticut. It is the oldest Jewish congregation in Bridgeport and the third oldest in Connecticut.B’nai Israel was established by a group of German Jewish immigrants as an Orthodox synagogue in 1859. The congregation’s first rabbi was A. Jacobs. B’nai Israel established a Hebrew school in 1863.For its first fifty years B’nai Israel did not have a permanent home.