Few people know what a discourse community is, but are most likely involved in at least one, if not several. These communities are everywhere, for example, it can be anything from AA to a law firm, a synagogue is also a type of speech community. The community discussed in this article is Beth Abraham Synagogue (BAS). Beth Abraham Synagogue meets all the qualifications of a speech community while also publishing texts about their history and educational program that reflect the members of its congregation. Beth Abraham Synagogue is the only Conservative Jewish synagogue in Dayton, Ohio. It is a small congregation founded during World War II. They host weekly services and celebrations, an innovative religious school, an award-winning newsletter, and even their own cemetery. Members of the congregation identify as a warm and welcoming family. The goals of this community are to spread Jewish values ​​and understanding of Judaism, to learn Hebrew, and to propagate the belief that the Torah can be a source of meaning in any person's life. They highly value the history of their religion, particularly the Jewish people of Israel, and the understanding that being Jewish means they are part of the “extended Jewish family.” Congregation Beth Abraham is also very interested in continuing the tradition of Conservative Judaism and welcoming new members into their family, according to their website home page. As defined by John Swales in his article, The Concepts of Discourse Community, Beth Abraham Synagogue is a discourse community. They illustrate the six determining factors of a discourse community according to Swales. The first definition, "A discourse community has a middle of paper......effective to some extent but could have been organized differently and been more effective by combining some paragraphs and including headings so the reader knows what that he is going to read. The structure and organization reflects the audience for which it was written by being informative to all, members and non-members, who would visit this site. Beth Abraham Synagogue of Dayton, Ohio is a fully functioning and current speech community. BAS has common goals, intercommunication, participation and feedback, its own genres, a specific lexicon and different levels of expertise within its congregation, meeting all the requirements of a legitimate speech community. Its genres analyzed above, despite some ineffective organizational and layout patterns, to some extent reflect the congregation while also informing "outsiders" about their educational system and history..