The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Rodef Shalom Congregation in Charleroi, Pa. was established as early as 1914 and chartered in late 1924. The congregation built a synagogue on Washington Avenue in 1926 and used the building until 1967, when the congregation merged with Congregation Kneseth Israel in nearby Monessen, Pa.