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In 1957, 200 members of Temple Beth Sholom volunteered to solicit multi-year pledges under the guidance of a professional fundraiser. This successful campaign culminated in the formal groundbreaking for a new school wing, offices, garden/ atrium and ultimately a Synagogue/Sanctuary, designed by the architectural luminary Percival Goodman. At ground breaking for the new construction, Col. Arthur Levitt, controller for the State of New York and, himself a former synagogue president, urged us to make sure that... “once this building is completed, please don’t allow it to stand idle, like a monument, but use it to its fullest measure”. If ever a synagogue served as a beehive of activity, Beth Sholom certainly has over all of these years!

Long range planning in 1983-84 resulted in plans for the expansion of the synagogue and building of a new wing including a chapel, auditorium,