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Adath Israel Congregation is a Conservative synagogue located at 37 Southbourne Avenue in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has over 1800 member families.It was founded in 1903 by Jewish immigrants from Romania as the First Roumanian Hebrew Congregation Adath Israel. The formal name was shortened in the 1950s. There are three rabbis at the Adath Israel Congregation, Rabbi David Seed, Rabbi Moshe Meirovich and rabbi emeritus Rabbi Erwin Schild. The synagogue has approximately 1800 families and provides many daily programs for all ages, including a daily minyan. Alex Stein from Sydney Australia, serves as senior cantor.Originally known as the "Roumainshe Shul", Adath Israel started when new immigrants from Roumania gathered together in a rental space, eventually moving to its first permanent home on Centre Avenue. In 1911 the synagogue dedicated a new building on Bathurst Street near Dundas, where for 30 years the First Roumanian Hebrew Congregation Adath Israel grew under the leadership of Rabbi Abraham Kelman.In 1947, Rabbi Erwin Schild, freshly ordained by the Yeshivah Torath Chaim of Toronto, became the new rabbi of the Congregation. The next few years at the synagogue were marked by tremendous growth in membership and activities to the point where, coupled with the shifting demographics of the Jewish community, a new building was constructed in its current location in North York. In 1957 the new building was officially dedicated.