Born right after World War II in 1947, just as Reform Judaism in the United States was growing into its modern, suburban form, Old York Road Temple-Beth Am came of age with the times. It started as “a small but dedicated group of families” who held High Holiday services at the Abington YMCA, according to the synagogue’s history section on its website. But the congregation bought its property on Old York Road in 1950 and grew to include 1,000 households by the 2000s. Rabbis came and rabbis stayed. First, Harold Waintrup from 1951 to 1992, and then Robert Leib from...