Century-old local synagogue celebrates Rosh Hashanah
(World News USA)

Set back from the north side of Wagner Avenue and just a block away from the historic Fleischmanns Village Park, where baseball great Honus Wagner once played, sits a one-and-a-half story wood-frame building with clapboard siding, one of the village`s oldest and most historic buildings. Built in 1920, the B`nai Israel synagogue is laid out simply: a small vestibule, a community room and a sanctuary, with pristine white walls starkly divided into narrow rectangles by dark wooden applied battens, arching upward to support a broad gable roof — a design more typical of Episcopal churches than a synagogue, according to congregation president Gil Rubin. Positioned against the far wall of the...