Gemilas Chesed
Alan Iszauk at the bimah where he was bar mitzvahed, married, and still prays. The sanctuary’s blue stained-glass windows cast an ethereal glow onto the room. (Photo by Benyamin Cohen)
July 10, 2025, 9:37 am
This town lost most of its Jews. But not its Judaism
A century-old Orthodox synagogue in a Rust Belt town lost most of its congregation, its rabbis, and almost everything else — but not its daily minyan
By Benyamin Cohen
Gemilas Chesed is offering $100,000 to families as an incentive to move to White Oak. Photo by David Rullo.
July 11, 2022, 4:56 pm
Gemilas Chesed offers cash incentive to plant White Oak roots
"We have Torahs from Clairton and from Donora — every shul up and down the valley — Uniontown, Charleroi, Duquesne, they’ve all closed down and we don’t want to be the next one.”
By David Rullo
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