Wikipedia's first sentence called it “reconstructionist synagogue located at 542 south new middletown road in media”. Today it says “reconstructionist synagogue located at 542 south new middletown road in middletown township in delaware county”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-03.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2020 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2020
Formed in 1925 and granted a charter by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1929, Beth Israel is the first Jewish congregation founded in Media, the second-oldest in Delaware County , and the oldest Reconstructionist congregation in Delaware Valley . Gayley Street building In 1935 the congregation bought the old Quaker school on Gayley Street in Media. Originally Orthodox and led by lay members, Beth Israel allowed mixed seating in the 1940s. The congregation started hiring part-time rabbis from the Yeshiva University Synagogue Council in 1948, and in 1957 it hired its first full-time rabbi, a Yeshiva University graduate. Jewish families became attracted to local Conservative synagogues in the 1960s, and demographic changes and a deteriorating building led to a significant membership decline, with the synagogue almost failing. In 1972, Beth Israel affiliated with the Reconstructionist movement, and by the 1980s it had hired its first full-time Reconstructionist rabbi, and had outgrown its building. It moved into its current building on Middletown Road in 1997. As of 2009 , the rabbi was Linda Potemken. Archived at the Internet Archive .1
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 929668380.
The opening as it stood in 2010
Formed in 1925 and granted a charter by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1929, Beth Israel is the first Jewish congregation founded in Media, the second-oldest in Delaware County , and the oldest Reconstructionist congregation in Delaware Valley . Originally Orthodox and led by lay members, Beth Israel allowed mixed seating in the 1940s. In 1948 it started hiring part time rabbis from the Yeshiva University Synagogue Council, and in 1957 it hired its first full-time rabbi, a Yeshiva University graduate. Jewish families became attracted to local Conservative synagogues in the 1960s, and demographic changes and a deteriorating building led to a significant membership decline, with the synagogue almost failing. In 1972, Beth Israel affiliated with the Reconstructionist movement, and by the 1980s it had hired its first full-time Reconstructionist rabbi, and had outgrown its building. It moved into its current building on Middletown Road in 1997. As of 2009 , the rabbi was Linda Potemken. Archived at the Internet Archive .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 364438437.
The opening as it stood in 2015
Formed in 1925 and granted a charter by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1929, Beth Israel is the first Jewish congregation founded in Media, the second-oldest in Delaware County , and the oldest Reconstructionist congregation in Delaware Valley . Gayley Street building In 1935 the congregation bought the old Quaker school on Gayley Street in Media. Originally Orthodox and led by lay members, Beth Israel allowed mixed seating in the 1940s. The congregation started hiring part-time rabbis from the Yeshiva University Synagogue Council in 1948, and in 1957 it hired its first full-time rabbi, a Yeshiva University graduate. Jewish families became attracted to local Conservative synagogues in the 1960s, and demographic changes and a deteriorating building led to a significant membership decline, with the synagogue almost failing. In 1972, Beth Israel affiliated with the Reconstructionist movement, and by the 1980s it had hired its first full-time Reconstructionist rabbi, and had outgrown its building. It moved into its current building on Middletown Road in 1997. As of 2009 , the rabbi was Linda Potemken. Archived at the Internet Archive .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 598587693.
The opening as it stood in 2025 9 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Reconstructionist synagogue in Media, Pennsylvania, United States For similarly named synagogues, see Beth Israel .Congregation Beth Israel is a Reconstructionist synagogue located at 542 South New Middletown Road in Middletown Township in Delaware County , near Media , Pennsylvania , in the United States.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1283680031. This is our newest snapshot; the live article may have moved again since.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “reconstructionist synagogue located at 542 south new middletown road in media”. Today it says “reconstructionist synagogue located at 542 south new middletown road in middletown township in delaware county”. Read the current article and compare.
2010
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since 2010, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
reconstructionist synagogue located at 542 south new middletown road in media
Now
reconstructionist synagogue located at 542 south new middletown road in middletown township in delaware county
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.
