Beth Israel Center members gathered in a sukkah in 1960, in an open space in the South Hills. It would be another three years until the congregation dedicated its synagogue. The “November 1960” date printed along the margin of the photograph does not align with the holiday of Sukkot.

Date 1960
Identifier MSS_1084_B017_F020_I01
Collection Beth Israel Center (Pleasant Hills, Pa.) Records [MSS 1084]
Source Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center