The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
When Temple Beth Israel in Sharon created an Adult Education Program, its chairman wrote, “We don’t fear to admit we are not scholarly, nor avant-garde, nor are we an ‘arty’ group, nor a highly educated one, but we consider ourselves fairly intelligent and aware of the ‘currents and trends’ in our world as they influence our lives.”