Mahanoy City’s first Jewish congregation dates back to 1888, having laid the cornerstone for the former Beth Israel Synagogue in 1923.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emergency personnel responded to the partial collapse of a Mahanoy City synagogue late Thursday night. Multiple calls were ...

MAHANOY CITY, Pa. - A synagogue that stood tall for more than 100 years is destroyed after it collapsed late Thursday night. Crews were on scene all day demolishing the building and cleaning up what's ...

When Bernard Shanfield made one of his weekly checks on Beth Israel Synagogue in May 1997, paint was peeling off its walls and some of the bulbs on its twin menorahs had burned out. “This place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MAHANOY CITY, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Crews were called to a reported structure collapse late Thursday night. Schuylkill ...

Emergency personnel responded to the partial collapse of a Mahanoy City synagogue late Thursday night. Multiple calls were received around 9:20 p.m. Thursday saying that the former Beth Israel ...

Emergency crews respond to reports of falling walls and scattered debris at the former Beth Israel Synagogue, founded in 1923 ...