Temple B'Nai Israel of White Oak

09/22/2025

La Shan Tova to all of our FRIENDS.
May the year of 5786 be a year filled with good health and Peace for everyone.🍎🍯🍎

06/10/2025

Saying goodbye and thank you to Rabbi Stein. We wish you & your family much happiness in Roanoke, VA.

We’re excited to start a new adventure. I’m excited for this opportunity, and my family is excited for it, as well.

06/05/2025

Temple B'nai Israel's legacy lives on at Community Day School

'This sacred scroll is more than just words. It is our history, our identity and our lifeline'

06/04/2025

I want to personally thank the Temple B'nai Israel community for being so warm and welcoming as I reported this story, which was published this morning in the Forward. It will hopefully be the first of many articles I plan on writing about the history of Jews in McKeesport and the farmer who is building a new shul in a cornfield in rural Illinois (and a museum to honor TBI) — which I plan on turning into a book. Here's the first article >

Nik Jakobs, a farmer from Sterling, Illinois, is building Temple Sholom with pieces from Temple B’nai Israel in White Oak, Pennsylvania.

05/23/2025

To the non-Jewish friends and others who follow this page, here's the thing:

All the slogans like “Free Palestine” “F@ Zionists/Israel” and “From the River to the Sea” when used as a a justification to gun down Jews and/or Israelis in cold blood, simply cannot mean anything other than the removal/killing/destruction of Jews when used in other settings. FULL STOP.

They are not slogans of resistance, liberation theology, or freedom fighting. They are words that can kill - and now they have, with no remorse.

When people tell you/show you who they are - BELIEVE THEM. This horrific terror attack will not stop the war, bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, or do anything to bring people together.

If you have chanted these words at a protest or encampment, check yourself. What did you *actually mean*? And if you don't understand your Jewish friends and colleagues who have grown fearful of these words - WHICH ARE NOT JUST WORDS, THEY ARE CALLS TO ACTION - maybe check yourselves and make a different choice than to use words that clearly are meant as weapons.

And maybe ask your Jewish friends and colleagues if they are ok. I for one, am not ok.

May Yaron and Sarah’s memory be a blessing. 💔

05/12/2025

The legacy of Temple B'nai Israel will live on at the McKeesport Heritage and History Center

A big thank you too Isaiah Johnson, Paul Francis, and Nate Graboski for moving some recent additions to our collection donated by Temple B’Nai Israel of White Oak. We appreciate your help gentlemen!

05/09/2025

Shabbat Shalom
Happy Mother's Day
to all of our special moms 💝

05/02/2025

Last weekend many of us had the the extraordinary experience of being a part of Temple's final Shabbat weekend. It was a bitter-sweet reunion and celebration and all of us are so grateful to have had the opportunity to say goodbye to TBI.
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Sharing some sweet memeories...
Shabbat Shalom

04/25/2025

Shabbat Shalom to all!
We look forward to celebrating and sharing special memories with everyone during this memorable weekend! Shalom Chaverim!