Kesher Israel, also known as the Georgetown Synagogue, is an Orthodox synagogue located at 2801 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 in Georgetown in Washington, D.C.. The congregation is over a century old and many prominent people including US Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, former US Senator Joe Lieberman (Independent Democrat of Connecticut), Mark Mellman, Democratic pollster and political consultant, and Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning author.