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The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
The Cooperative Conservative Congregations Hebrew School was a Jewish religious school for unaffiliated families living in the Fox Chapel suburb north of Pittsburgh.
Congregation Beth Shalom, B’nai Israel Congregation, and Tree of Life Congregation formed the Committee for Cooperation Among Conservative Congregations in the mid-1970s to discuss issues relevant to all three congregations. The committee formed the Cooperative Conservative Congregations Hebrew School on September 30, 1975. Also known as the Fox Chapel Hebrew School, the he school met twice weekly at the Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church with a third class at a local Conservative congregation selected by each student. After the first year, participating families were required to become members of one of the three sponsoring congregations.
The school appears to have been short-lived. In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Beth Shalom and Tree of Life each made independent efforts to launch a Hebrew school in Fox Chapel. Through a merger with Beth Jacob Congregation of New Kensington in 1995, B’nai Israel ultimately relocated to the area and became the new Adat Shalom.
