These articles celebrate the history and the legacy of Homestead’s synagogue and spell out the community’s preservation plans.
Oral History Articles 1993-4
As the Homestead oral history project proceeded, the Jewish archives sent out a few press releases publicizing their progress.
Beth Shalom Fire
The congregation took such care in donating its Judaica and Torahs to a synagogue where they’d be used and loved, but when Man plans, G-d laughs…
Burying the Torahs
A couple months after the fire, the Homestead Hebrew Torahs were buried. The installation of the grave marker took another 12 years.
New Americans in 21st century Homestead
Homestead became a home for Jews who left the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, but they didn’t receive a warm welcome.
The Homestead Rodef Shalom Congregation Bomber?!
The Sisterhood raised so much money in War Bonds that a plane was named after the synagogue! But can we locate it now?
War Memorial
The war memorial in the Homestead Hebrew Cemetery honors sons of the community who lost their lives in WWI and WWII.