Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock

{{Short description|Synagogue in Los Angeles, California, United States}}

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| building_name = Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock

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| location = 5711 Monte Vista Street, Highland Park, Los Angeles, California

| country = United States

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| religious_affiliation = Judaism

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| leadership = Rabbi Alex Weisz

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| architecture_style = Spanish Colonial Revival

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| established = 1923 {{small|(as a congregation)}}

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| year_completed = 1930

| construction_cost = $4,078

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| footnotes = {{cite news |author=Leibowitz, Ed. |url=http://www.lamag.com/featuredarticle.aspx?id=9768 |title=Finding Sanctuary |work=Los Angeles |date=September 2008 |page= |access-date= }}{{cite news |author=Ullman, Jane |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/the_little_shul_that_could_highland_parks_temple_beth_israel_20060908/ |title=The Little Shul That Could—Highland Park's Temple Beth Israel |work=The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles |date=September 7, 2006 |page= |access-date= }}

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Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock is a dual-affiliated Conservative and Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 5711 Monte Vista Street in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California.{{cite web |url=http://www.tbila.org/contact.htm |title=Contacts |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509192735/http://www.tbila.org/contact.htm |archive-date=2008-05-09 |work=Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock |date=n.d. |access-date=August 27, 2009 }}{{self-published-inline|date=February 2024}}

First organized as the Highland Park Hebrew School Association in 1923, the congregation completed construction of its Spanish Colonial Revival style building in 1930, at a cost of $4,078 (today ${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|4077.88|1930|r=-3}}}}). It is the oldest synagogue in Los Angeles exclusively operating in its original location.{{cite web |url=http://www.tbila.org/history.htm |title=History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429100712/http://tbila.org/history.htm |archive-date=2009-04-29 |work=Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock |date=n.d. |access-date=August 27, 2009 }}{{self-published-inline|date=February 2024}} In July 2023, Rabbi Alex Weisz became the Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth Israel, making him the first Gen Z rabbi serving as the spiritual leader of an American synagogue.https://www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhoods/highland_park/how-a-gen-z-rabbi-is-transforming-an-historic-highland-park-temple/article_f784b6f6-b1d3-11ef-a46f-3bb527e30e37.amp.html