Beth Sholom Congregation (Frederick, Maryland)

Beth Sholom Congregation is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 1011 North Market Street, in Frederick, Maryland, in the United States.

History
Frederick Hebrew Congregation was founded in Frederick City in c. 1840. Services were initially held in the homes of its early members before moving to the masonic temple. The former Frederick Hebrew Congregation was chartered on October 6, 1917; and in 1919, the congregation incorporated as Beth Sholom Congregation. The first synagogue was built in Brunswick, Maryland, the same year.

In 1923, the original synagogue was dedicated at the town's former Elks Club.

Beth Sholom built a community center in Frederick in 1984. The community center was intended for the preschool, religious school, youth activities, and social activities. A new, larger community center was opened in 1994.

Rabbinical leaders
Yehuda E. Perkins was the rabbi in 1959.

Rabbi Morris Kosman, a Detroit native who had served as the congregation's spiritual leader since 1961, retired and assumed emeritus status in 2010. Kosman died October 22, 2016.

Rabbi Murray Singerman became the congregation's new spiritual leader in 2010. After a year and a half, Singerman resigned, and Beth Sholom was served until July 2014 by a visiting rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York under the Gladstein Fellowship program, Rabbi Jordan Hersh and his wife, Cantor Shulie Hersh. Rabbi Hersch is an alumnus of Rabbis without Borders. In July 2014, Rabbi Hersh was appointed as the permanent rabbi of Beth Sholom. Rabbi Hersh is also the only chaplain in Maryland's Army National Guard; he was called to serve and protect the Capitol in the wake of the insurrection on January 6, 2021.