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Conservative synagogue in West Palm Beach, Florida. A Conservative Congregation; Established 1926 Temple Beth EL was the first attempt to organize a synagogue in Palm Beach County. It assembled at a house on 5th Street in 1919. In those days, the Jewish community was small, and the area encompassed by the initial network of Jews went as far as Fort Pierce to the north, south to Boca Raton, and west to the Glades. As the population in the Palm Beach area grew and as the diverse individuality of the Jewish spirit expressed itself, there became a need for diversity, as well as independent and modified visions of what the synagogue should be. In the beginning, an organization called the Jewish Community Center existed to serve the Palm Beach County Jewish population. When the Jewish community