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Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue (Cambridge)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “synagogue in the city of cambridge”. Today it says “reform jewish congregation and synagogue”.
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Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue is a synagogue in the City of Cambridge .1 Founded in 1981, it held services in hired premises until 2015 when the community opened a new synagogue on a site on Auckland Road, the first Reform synagogue in Cambridge. The new building includes a prayer hall for at least 200 people. The building was dedicated on 6 September 2015 at a service led by Fiona Karet Frankl and addressed by Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner , senior rabbi to the Movement for Reform Judaism.2 Movement for Reform Judaism .

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synagogue in the city of cambridge

Now

reform jewish congregation and synagogue

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