Beth Israel Synagogue

Beth Israel Synagogue is the synagogue of the Aruban Jewish community, located in Oranjestad, Aruba. Beth Israel Synagogue is an independent congregation with a liberal style similar to Reform Judaism or Conservative Judaism.

The community consists mostly of Jewish immigrants that arrived in Aruba from different parts of the World, and made it their home. After 1924, a large group of Eastern European Jews, mostly from Poland, settled here, together with Jews from Holland and Sephardic families from the previously Dutch South American colony of Surinam. The community opened a Jewish center in 1942 - the Jewish Country Club - and four years later, with the arrival of some Holocaust survivors, the community was officially organized.