Synagogue to host open house as it settles into Temecula home

Visitors should expect the unexpected when they attend the Aug. 17 open house at Temple Beth Sholom in Temecula.

Visitors will interact with a Jewish congregation that is one of the oldest, as well as one of the newest, synagogues in southwest Riverside County. It is a congregation that reverberates with change even though its local roots span nearly five decades.

Blending the old and the new – along with the creation of an “infrastructure” of Jewish communal services – are twin goals of the self-described “Conservative Congregation with a Modern Twist.”

Sandy Rosenstein, the congr...