Congregation Etz Hayim at Hollis Hills Bayside is a synagogue located in the neighborhood of Hollis Hills in Queens, New York. Congregation Etz Hayim at Hollis Hills Bayside is an egalitarian synagogue providing worship in the Conservative tradition. As of 2016, 240 families are members of the synagogue. The synagogue today reflects a consolidation of the Hollis Hills Jewish Center, the Bayside Jewish Center Jewish Center of Oak Hills, and Marathon Jewish Community Center. History Hollis Hills Jewish Center Construction of the present building, originally named Hollis Hills Jewish Center, began on May 15, 1949. The cornerstone was laid on December 18, 1949. Hollis Hills Jewish Center was built in three stages. First, the basement was built on the 211th Street side of Union Turnpike. The original sanctuary was in this structure. During the second phase, in the 1950s, a new sanctuary was built above the original sanctuary. Finally, the current sanctuary was built on the 210th Street side. This sanctuary was dedicated in 1960. The original two sanctuaries faced east. The current sanctuary faces west. When Hollis Hills Jewish Center opened, it had 500 families as members. Bayside Jewish Center Bayside Jewish Center was created in 1938 when two groups of Jewish families who held services in two locations — one above a store on Bell Boulevard and the other in a store on 32nd Avenue — joined together, bought land, and erected a building on it on 35th Avenue between 206th Street and 207th Street. In 1958, the property was condemned to make way for the Clearview Expressway. The next building cornerstone was quarried from Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and was laid in 1959. The dedication took place on October 6, 1960. The building was sold in 2016 as part of the consolidation process. Both congregations have had many members who were Holocaust survivors; in some cases both spouses are survivors. One of the Bayside members was on Schindler's List. Clergy and staff Hollis Hills Jewish Center's first rabbi was Naphtali Z. Frishberg. Rabbi Frishberg had formerly been a rabbi at Temple Beth El in Springfield, Massachusetts. Rabbi Frishberg served until 1955, when he became the rabbi of Beth Emeth Synagogue in Larchmont, New York. Rabbi Max L. Forman succeeded Rabbi Frishberg. Frishberg died at the age of 51 in 1960. Hollis Hills Jewish Center's first cantor was Sol J. Sanders. Born in Poland, Sanders immigrated to