Overbrook Park, Philadelphia

Overbrook Park has a public school named after Robert Eneas Lamberton, a former Republican mayor of Philadelphia.

Most of the Jewish people have moved across City Avenue (U.S. 1) into neighboring Penn Wynne in Lower Merion Township.

The Jewish community of both sides of the border are considered to be one unit and are connected by an eruv, a wire attached to the telephone and electric poles which allows religious Jews to carry things on Shabbat.

[3] The Building that housed Beth Hamedrosh is now Temple Kefarym, a Black Hebrew congregation which is now boarded up following a fire.

[10] Starting with Rosh Hashana in September 2020, Chabad of Penn Wynne is now located in Overbrook Park in the same shopping center that is home to New York Bagels.

It was previously located at the Kaiserman JCC across City Line Avenue but had to relocate due to the coronavirus pandemic.